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List of famous people buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, listed alphabetically with photos when available. Celebrities are often buried in the highest caliber cemeteries, mausoleums and tombs, which is why we've created this list of celebrities buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Here are also celebs who were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery and notable people buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. If you're ever visiting Forest Lawn Memorial Park and want to check out historic graves, then use this list to pinpoint exactly which burial locations you want to see.

There are six Forest Lawn Memorial Parks located in Southern California: Glendale, Hollywood Hills, Long Beach, Cypress, Covina, and Cathedral City. Known for having many famous burial sites, the cemeteries are frequently visited by tourists and fans.

List people include Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and many additional people as well.

This list answers the questions "Which famous people are buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park?" and "Which celebrities are buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park?"

From celebrity tombs at Forest Lawn Memorial Park to legendary locals, these are the most well-known people whose final resting place is Forest Lawn Memorial Park. You can find useful information below for these notable people buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, like what year and where the person was born.

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Michael Jackson Dec. at 51 (1958-2009) Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music and dance, along with his publicized personal ...more

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Elizabeth Taylor Dec. at 79 (1932-2011) Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-born American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of ...more

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Brittany Murphy Dec. at 32 (1977-2009) Brittany Murphy-Monjack, known professionally as Brittany Murphy, was an American film and stage actress, singer, and voice artist. Murphy, a native of Atlanta, moved to Los Angeles as a ...more

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Harrison Ford age 75 Harrison Ford is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as Han Solo in the original Star Wars epic space opera trilogy and the title character of ...more

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Lucille Ball Dec. at 78 (1911-1989) Lucille Désirée Ball was an American actress, comedian, model, and film studio executive. She was the star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, ...more

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James Stewart Dec. at 89 (1908-1997) James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive drawl voice and down-to-earth persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many ...more

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Clark Gable Died at 59 (1901-1960) Clark Gable was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King". Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an ...more

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Bette Davis Dec. at 81 (1908-1989) Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known as Bette Davis, was an American actress of film, television and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actors in cinema history, she was noted for her willingness ...more

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Humphrey Bogart Dec. at 58 (1899-1957) Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American screen actor whose performances in such iconic 1940s films noir as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep, earned him the legacy of cultural ...more

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Jean Harlow Dec. at 26 (1911-1937) Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. After being signed by director Howard Hughes, Harlow's first major appearance was in Hell's Angels, followed by a series of ...more

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Bob Barker age 94 Robert William "Bob" Barker is an American former television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running ...more

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Stan Laurel Dec. at 75 (1890-1965) Arthur Stanley Jefferson, better known by his stage name Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, most famous as Laurel of comedic duo Laurel and Hardy – Hardy being ...more

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Liberace Dec. at 68 (1919-1987) Władziu Valentino Liberace, mononymously known as Liberace, was an American pianist and entertainer. A child prodigy and the first generation son of working class immigrants, Liberace's career ...more

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Joan Blondell Dec. at 73 (1906-1979) Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. ...more

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Rod Steiger Dec. at 77 (1925-2002) Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger was an American actor known for his performances in such films as On the Waterfront, The Big Knife, Oklahoma!, The Harder They Fall, Across the Bridge, The ...more

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Sandra Dee Dec. at 63 (1942-2005) Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of ingenues, Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year's ...more

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Gene Autry Dec. at 91 (1907-1998) Orvon Grover Autry, better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in ...more

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Steve Allen Dec. at 79 (1921-2000) Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best ...more

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Norma Shearer Dec. at 81 (1902-1983) Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s. Her early films cast her as the ...more

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W. C. Fields Dec. at 66 (1880-1946) William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Fields's comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a ...more

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Charles Laughton Dec. at 63 (1899-1962) Charles Laughton was an English stage and film actor and director. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In ...more

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Buster Keaton Dec. at 71 (1895-1966) Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, filmmaker, stunt performer, and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was ...more

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Fay Wray Dec. at 97 (1907-2004) Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in ...more

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Gracie Allen Dec. at 69 (1895-1964) Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie "Gracie" Allen, was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to ...more

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David Carradine Dec. at 73 (1936-2009) David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist, best known for his leading role as a warrior monk, Kwai Chang Caine, in the 1970s television series Kung Fu. He was a member of a ...more

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Lee Van Cleef Dec. at 64 (1925-1989) Clarence Leroy "Lee" Van Cleef, Jr., was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Westerns and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his being cast as a ...more

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Carole Lombard Dec. at 34 (1908-1942) Carole Lombard was an American film actress. She was particularly noted for her highly neurotic, energetic and often off-beat roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the ...more

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Anita Louise Dec. at 55 (1915-1970) Anita Louise was an American film actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Story of Louis Pasteur, and Anthony Adverse.

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Mary Pickford Dec. at 87 (1892-1979) Mary Pickford was a Canadian-American motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ...more

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Clara Bow Dec. at 60 (1905-1965) Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s. It was her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the ...more

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Ozzie Nelson Dec. at 69 (1906-1975) Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson was an American band leader, actor, television director and producer. Nelson originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and ...more

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Irving Thalberg Dec. at 37 (1899-1936) Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and his extraordinary ability to select the ...more

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Sam Cooke Dec. at 33 (1931-1964) Samuel "Sam" Cooke was an American recording artist and singer-songwriter, generally considered among the greatest of all time. Influential as both a singer and composer, he is ...more

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James Arness Dec. at 88 (1923-2011) James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke for 20 years. Arness has the distinction of having played the role of ...more

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Aimee Semple McPherson Dec. at 54 (1890-1944) Aimee Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian-American Los Angeles–based evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s. She founded the Foursquare Church. McPherson ...more

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Keenan Wynn Dec. at 70 (1916-1986) Keenan Wynn was an American character actor. His expressive face was his stock in trade, and though he rarely carried the lead role, he got prominent billing in most of his film and television

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Dorothy Lamour Dec. at 82 (1914-1996) Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer. She is best remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Lamour began ...more

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Robert Taylor Dec. at 58 (1911-1969) Robert Taylor was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular leading men of his time. Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ...more

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Judith Barsi Dec. at 10 (1978-1988) Judith Eva Barsi was an American child actress. She began her career in television, making appearances in commercials and television shows, and later appeared in the films Jaws: The Revenge, The ...more

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Harold Lloyd Dec. at 78 (1893-1971) Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American actor, comedian, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is most famous for his silent comedy films. Harold Lloyd ranks ...more

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Alan Ladd Dec. at 51 (1913-1964) Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film and television producer. Ladd found success in film the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns and film noirs where he was often ...more

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Rex Harrison Dec. at 82 (1908-1990) Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison MBE was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison began his career on the stage in 1924. He won his first Tony Award for his performance as Henry ...more

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Forrest Tucker Dec. at 67 (1919-1986) Forrest Meredith Tucker was an American actor in both movies and television from the 1940s to the 1980s. Tucker, who stood 6'4" tall and weighed 200 lb, appeared in nearly 100 action films ...more

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Paul Winfield Dec. at 65 (1939-2004) Paul Edward Winfield was an American television, film and stage actor. He was known for his portrayal of a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Great Depression ...more

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David O. Selznick Dec. at 63 (1902-1965) David O. Selznick was an American film producer and film studio executive. He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind and Rebecca, both earning him an Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Edie Adams Dec. at 81 (1927-2008) Edie Adams was an American businesswoman, singer, Broadway, television and film actress, and comedienne. Adams, an Emmy and Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes ...more

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Sue Williams Dec. at 24 (1945-1969) Sue Williams was an American actress and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1965. Her centerfold was photographed by Ed DeLong and William V. Figge.

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Harriet Nelson Dec. at 85 (1909-1994) Harriet Nelson was an American singer and actress. Nelson is best known for her role on the long-running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

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Robert Young Dec. at 91 (1907-1998) Robert George Young was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best, and the physician Marcus Welby ...more

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Fritz Lang Dec. at 86 (1890-1976) Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was a German-Austrian filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's ...more

1 Michael Jackson Dec. at 51 (1958-2009) Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music and dance, along with his publicized personal ...more

2 Elizabeth Taylor Dec. at 79 (1932-2011) Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-born American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of ...more

3 Brittany Murphy Dec. at 32 (1977-2009) Brittany Murphy-Monjack, known professionally as Brittany Murphy, was an American film and stage actress, singer, and voice artist. Murphy, a native of Atlanta, moved to Los Angeles as a ...more

4 Harrison Ford age 75 Harrison Ford is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as Han Solo in the original Star Wars epic space opera trilogy and the title character of ...more

5 Lucille Ball Dec. at 78 (1911-1989) Lucille Désirée Ball was an American actress, comedian, model, and film studio executive. She was the star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, ...more

6 James Stewart Dec. at 89 (1908-1997) James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive drawl voice and down-to-earth persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many ...more

7 Clark Gable Died at 59 (1901-1960) Clark Gable was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King". Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an ...more

8 Bette Davis Dec. at 81 (1908-1989) Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known as Bette Davis, was an American actress of film, television and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actors in cinema history, she was noted for her willingness ...more

9 Humphrey Bogart Dec. at 58 (1899-1957) Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American screen actor whose performances in such iconic 1940s films noir as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep, earned him the legacy of cultural ...more

10 Jean Harlow Dec. at 26 (1911-1937) Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. After being signed by director Howard Hughes, Harlow's first major appearance was in Hell's Angels, followed by a series of ...more

11 Bob Barker age 94 Robert William "Bob" Barker is an American former television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running ...more

12 Stan Laurel Dec. at 75 (1890-1965) Arthur Stanley Jefferson, better known by his stage name Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, most famous as Laurel of comedic duo Laurel and Hardy – Hardy being ...more

13 Liberace Dec. at 68 (1919-1987) Władziu Valentino Liberace, mononymously known as Liberace, was an American pianist and entertainer. A child prodigy and the first generation son of working class immigrants, Liberace's career ...more

14 Joan Blondell Dec. at 73 (1906-1979) Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. ...more

15 Rod Steiger Dec. at 77 (1925-2002) Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger was an American actor known for his performances in such films as On the Waterfront, The Big Knife, Oklahoma!, The Harder They Fall, Across the Bridge, The ...more

16 Sandra Dee Dec. at 63 (1942-2005) Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of ingenues, Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year's ...more

17 Gene Autry Dec. at 91 (1907-1998) Orvon Grover Autry, better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in ...more

18 Steve Allen Dec. at 79 (1921-2000) Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best ...more

19 Norma Shearer Dec. at 81 (1902-1983) Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s. Her early films cast her as the ...more

20 W. C. Fields Dec. at 66 (1880-1946) William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Fields's comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a ...more

21 Charles Laughton Dec. at 63 (1899-1962) Charles Laughton was an English stage and film actor and director. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In ...more

22 Buster Keaton Dec. at 71 (1895-1966) Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, filmmaker, stunt performer, and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was ...more

23 Fay Wray Dec. at 97 (1907-2004) Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in ...more

24 Gracie Allen Dec. at 69 (1895-1964) Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie "Gracie" Allen, was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to ...more

25 David Carradine Dec. at 73 (1936-2009) David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist, best known for his leading role as a warrior monk, Kwai Chang Caine, in the 1970s television series Kung Fu. He was a member of a ...more

26 Lee Van Cleef Dec. at 64 (1925-1989) Clarence Leroy "Lee" Van Cleef, Jr., was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Westerns and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his being cast as a ...more

27 Carole Lombard Dec. at 34 (1908-1942) Carole Lombard was an American film actress. She was particularly noted for her highly neurotic, energetic and often off-beat roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the ...more

28 Anita Louise Dec. at 55 (1915-1970) Anita Louise was an American film actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Story of Louis Pasteur, and Anthony Adverse.

29 Mary Pickford Dec. at 87 (1892-1979) Mary Pickford was a Canadian-American motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ...more

30 Clara Bow Dec. at 60 (1905-1965) Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s. It was her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the ...more

31 Ozzie Nelson Dec. at 69 (1906-1975) Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson was an American band leader, actor, television director and producer. Nelson originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and ...more

32 Irving Thalberg Dec. at 37 (1899-1936) Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and his extraordinary ability to select the ...more

33 Sam Cooke Dec. at 33 (1931-1964) Samuel "Sam" Cooke was an American recording artist and singer-songwriter, generally considered among the greatest of all time. Influential as both a singer and composer, he is ...more

34 James Arness Dec. at 88 (1923-2011) James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke for 20 years. Arness has the distinction of having played the role of ...more

35 Aimee Semple McPherson Dec. at 54 (1890-1944) Aimee Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian-American Los Angeles–based evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s. She founded the Foursquare Church. McPherson ...more

36 Keenan Wynn Dec. at 70 (1916-1986) Keenan Wynn was an American character actor. His expressive face was his stock in trade, and though he rarely carried the lead role, he got prominent billing in most of his film and television

37 Dorothy Lamour Dec. at 82 (1914-1996) Dorothy Lamour was an American actress and singer. She is best remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Lamour began ...more

38 Robert Taylor Dec. at 58 (1911-1969) Robert Taylor was an American film and television actor who was one of the most popular leading men of his time. Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ...more

39 Judith Barsi Dec. at 10 (1978-1988) Judith Eva Barsi was an American child actress. She began her career in television, making appearances in commercials and television shows, and later appeared in the films Jaws: The Revenge, The ...more

40 Harold Lloyd Dec. at 78 (1893-1971) Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American actor, comedian, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is most famous for his silent comedy films. Harold Lloyd ranks ...more

41 Alan Ladd Dec. at 51 (1913-1964) Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film and television producer. Ladd found success in film the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns and film noirs where he was often ...more

42 Rex Harrison Dec. at 82 (1908-1990) Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison MBE was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison began his career on the stage in 1924. He won his first Tony Award for his performance as Henry ...more

43 Forrest Tucker Dec. at 67 (1919-1986) Forrest Meredith Tucker was an American actor in both movies and television from the 1940s to the 1980s. Tucker, who stood 6'4" tall and weighed 200 lb, appeared in nearly 100 action films ...more

44 Paul Winfield Dec. at 65 (1939-2004) Paul Edward Winfield was an American television, film and stage actor. He was known for his portrayal of a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Great Depression ...more

45 David O. Selznick Dec. at 63 (1902-1965) David O. Selznick was an American film producer and film studio executive. He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind and Rebecca, both earning him an Academy Award for Best Picture.

46 Edie Adams Dec. at 81 (1927-2008) Edie Adams was an American businesswoman, singer, Broadway, television and film actress, and comedienne. Adams, an Emmy and Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes ...more

47 Sue Williams Dec. at 24 (1945-1969) Sue Williams was an American actress and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1965. Her centerfold was photographed by Ed DeLong and William V. Figge.

48 Harriet Nelson Dec. at 85 (1909-1994) Harriet Nelson was an American singer and actress. Nelson is best known for her role on the long-running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

49 Robert Young Dec. at 91 (1907-1998) Robert George Young was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best, and the physician Marcus Welby ...more

50 Fritz Lang Dec. at 86 (1890-1976) Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was a German-Austrian filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's ...more