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Arnold Edward (Edward Arnold starred in Diamond Jim, and appeared in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Devil and Daniel Webster, and Annie Get Your Gun. He was the SAG president shortly before his death.)

Avila Michele (Michelle Avila was murdered by longtime friends, Karen Severson and Laura Doyle, in a jealous rage over boys, mostly. The book Missy's Murder, by Karen Kingsbury, details her story.)

Beaumont Charles (Charles Beaumont wrote many Twilight Zone episodes, movies scripts and other stories, and wrote Playboy magazine's first short-fiction story in 1954.)

Beckett Scott (Scotty Beckett was a cute child actor in Our Gang shorts, but had marriage and drug problems later. Third suicide attempt worked.)

Begley Ed (Actor Ed Begley was in 12 Angry Men, and won a best supporting actor oscar for Sweet Bird of Youth.)

Bendix William (Actor William Bendix was in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, starred in The Babe Ruth Story, and was nominated for best supporting actor in Wake Island.)

Blake Larry (Larry Blake acted in The Road Back. Backlash, Cruisin' Down the River, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Hang 'Em High, The Stone Killer, The Strongest Man in the World, and Tim After Time. On TV he was in The Pride of the Family, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Virginian, Here's Lucy, Adam-12, and The Waltons.)

Brennan Walter (Actor Walter Brennan was nominated 4 times for the best supporting actor oscar, winning for Come and Get It, Kentucky, and The Westerner. He was the grampa in TV's The Real McCoys.)

Candido Candy (Jonathan Joseph Candido began as a vocalist and bassist with the big band of Ted Fio Rito. He also was an actor and voice artist with a 4-octave speaking voice. He briefly became Bud Abbott's partner in the 1960s after the death of Lou Costello. His voice-work included The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, The Black Cauldron, Rudolf and Frosty's Christmas in July, the mad apple tree in The Wizard of Oz, and a pig in Charlotte's Web. Movies included Herbie Rides Again, Plunderers of Painted Flats, and Cowboy From Brooklyn.)

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Colonna Jerry (Jerry Colonna was a comedian, actor, and musician with the Columbia Symphony, and was a member of the Bob Hope radio program.)

Compson Betty (Betty Compson began acting in 1915 and made 41 shorts and one feature called Almost a Widow in 1916. In 1920, she began her own company and produced Prisoners of Love in 1921. in 1928, she appeared in Court-Martial as Belle Starr, and in The Barker, a silent movie which contained some talking scenes. Compson was nominated for a best actress oscar for The Barker. She was in The Docks of New York (1928), and The Spoilers (1930) with Gary Cooper. Her last film was Here Comes Trouble (1948). First husband was director James Cruze.)

Connors Chuck (Kevin 'Chuck' Connors is best-remembered as Lucas McCain on The Rifleman. He was also The Mad Bomber. He also played a year for the Boston Celtics, and was in and out of major league baseball.)

Coppola Carmine (Carmine Coppola was a composer, flautist, editor, musical director, and songwriter. He helped score the three Godfather movies, and Apocalypse Now, directed by his son Francis Ford Coppola.)

Corden Henry (Henry Corden was an actor and voice artist, and was the second Fred Flintstone from 1977. He also provided the singing voice in The Man Called Flintstone and The New Alice in Wonderland , and voiced parts on the Jetsons, Adam Ant, and others.)

De Forest Lee (Lee De Forest invented the Audion vacuum tube, which was a key component of all major communication devices (radio, telephone, radar, television) prior to the invention of the transistor.)

Dragon Carmen (Carmen Dragon was an oscar-winning composer, conducted the Hollywood Bowl orchestra and is the father of Daryl Dragon of The Captain and Tenille fame.)

Dwan Allan (Allan Dwan was a director, noted for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), Heidi (1937) and Robin Hood (1922). He estimated he's shot over 1,400 films including one-reelers in his career from 1909-61. He pioneered the use of cranes and dollies as camera moves.)

Fio Rito Ted (Ted Fio Rito was a composer, orchestra leader and keyboardist, who was popular on national radio in the 1920s and 30s. He had two #1 hits in 1934 - My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii and I'll String Along with You.)

Foran Dick (Dick Foran started as a band singer, and then sang on the radio. He started acting in supporting roles, then starred as a singing cowboy in musical westerns including 1936's Treachery Rides the Range, Song of the Saddle, and California Mail. Other films include Rangers of Fortune (1940), The Mummy's Hand (1940), and Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942) which featured his signature theme "I'll Remember April". He was in Donovan's Reef (1963) with longtime friend John Wayne, and his last role was in 1967's Brighty of the Grand Canyon. Work in his last years was almost all in TV commercials.)

Fox Evelyn (Eveyln Brent had a job as an extra for $3 a week using her original name, Betty Riggs. Between 1914 and 1920, she appeared in featured film roles with established stars such as Olga Petrova and John Barrymore, then went to England for health reasons, She went to Spain as star of The Spanish Jade, then returned to the US for Underworld, The Last Command, and Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference. In 1943, she played a one-armed satanist in The Seventh Victim. From 1950, she worked as an agent, then after third husband Harry Fox's death, made a final appearance on Wagon Train in 1960.)

Fox Harry (Harry Fox was a vaudeville dancer and comedian, famous for creating the "Fox Trot" , He acted in Beatrice Fairfax (1916), and The Play Boy (1929). He was married to Jenny of The Dolly Sisters, and later to actress Evelyn Brent.)

Frawley William (Actor William Frawley is best-known as the neighbor Fred Mertz from I Love Lucy.)

Garr Edward (Eddie Garr was the Master of Ceremonies on TV's Vanities On Parade and other variety shows, and acted in movies and TV. He was the father of actress Terrie Garr.)

Garvin Anita (Anita Garvin, by the age of 12 was 5ft 6in passing for 16, and got a job in a Mack Sennett bathing beauty stage show. She became a Ziegfeld Follies Girl, then acted in comedy shorts of Charley Chase, Our Gang, and Laurel and Hardy with whom she made 11 films including From Soup To Nuts, Sailors Beware, Hats Off, Blotto and Be Big, in both of which she played Stan's wife. She retired after The Three Stooges movie Cuckoo Cavaliers in 1940.)

Glennon Herbert (Bert Glennon was a cinematographer on over 100 movies, and was oscar-nominated for Stagecoach, Drums Along the Mohawk, and Dive Bomber.)

Gobel George (Comedian/actor George Gobel stared as a country singer, but had his own TV show in the early 50's. During WWII, he was a stateside flight trainer. 'There was not one Japanese aircraft got past Tulsa')

Greene Angela (Angela Greene acted in Hollywood Canteen, Mildred Pierce, 7 episodes as Tess Trueheart on the Dick Tracy TV series, At War With the Army, Night of the Blood Beast, and Futureworld. She was on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post in 1941 and Yank magazine in 1944, and as the bikini-clad nose-art of the bomber Skipper 2 in WWII. Dated JFK in the early 1940's. She also painted and had several exhibits,)

Haade William (William Haade appeared in over 250 films between 1937 and 1957 including Key Largo, and I Won't Play. Frequently credited as "Henchman" in TV shows such as The Lone Ranger, Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, and others. Probably best-remembered as the alcoholic prizefighter managed by Humphrey Bogart who is punched out by Wayne Morris in the finale of 'Kid Galahad' (1937))

Heindorf Ray (Ray Heindorf was a songwriter of Some Sunday Morning, Sugarfoot, Hollywood Canteen, I'm in a Jam, Some Sunny Day, Pete Kelly's Blues, and Melancholy Rhapsody. He was the music director at Warner Bros from 1948-65, and returned in 1968 for Finian's Rainbow.)

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Jesus Fam (The Holy Family statue.)

Joyce Alice (Alice Joyce dropped out of school and worked as a telephone operator, and part-time model, then acted in more than 200 films during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best-known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess. Director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Company in New York gave Alice Joyce her first role in 1910's The Deacon's Daughter. She eventually worked on the West Coast with Vitagraph after Kalem acquired the old Essanay Studios property in East Hollywood. After her film career, she worked with San Fernando Valley women's organizations.)

La Planche Rosemary (Rosemary LaPlanche was Miss California in 1940 and 1941, and Miss America in 1941. She appeared in films in the 30's and 40's.)

Lamont Charles (Charles Lamont was a director, starting with Educational Pictures' "Juvenile Comedies", then their "Baby Burlesks" featuring 4-year old Shirley Temple. He directed Salome Where She Danced, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, several Abbott and Costello comedies, Ma and Pa Kettle movies, and 19 episodes of TV's Walt Disney Present" Annette, and 9 episodes of Zorro.)

Lightner Winnie (Roy Del Ruth directed the first Maltese Falcon in 1931, a couple Broadway Melody and Ziegfield Follies musicals, The Babe Ruth Story, On Moonlight Bay, and Alligator People.)

Loo Richard (Actor Richard Loo was mostly stereotyped in Asian roles, and is probably best remembered as Hai Fat in the James Bond movie Man with the Golden Gun.)

Madonna (Madonna-and-child statue.)

Maltese Michael (Michael Maltese was a long-time storyboard artist and screenwriter for classic animated cartoon shorts, including For Scent-imental Reasons and the public health documentary, So Much for So Little, both oscar winners.)

Marlowe Jo Ann (Jo Ann Marlowe was a child actress in 29 movies, including Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) as 6-year old Josie Cohan. She may be best-known as the younger daughter, Kay, in Mildred Pierce (1945) with Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth. Jo Ann went on to become a lawyer and was a chief trial lawyer for the US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles until the late 60s when she was injured in an accident leaving her in a coma until her death more than 22 years later.)

May Robert (Bob May had 3 uncredited parts in film or TV including as Adolf Hitler on The Time Tunnel. His greatest fame came from his non-speaking role as The Robot on the TV series Lost In Space. (Dick Tufeld provided its voice).)

Minner Kathryn (Kathryn Minner started acting at age 65, in Dragnet. She was in TV commercials for Dodge which aired in Southern California from 1964 to 1969, and was on the cover of the Jan and Dean's The Little Old Lady from Pasadena.)

Nash Clarence (Clarence Nash was the voice of Donald Duck.)

Niblo Fred (Fred Niblo was a screenwriter and was oscar-nominated for The Criminal Code, directed by Howard Hawks. His 50 credits include Escape from Devil's Island, Penitentiary, No Place to Go, The Fighting 69th, Strange Alibi, and Incident. Niblo co-wrote the screenplay for Four Jills in a Jeep with his father.)

Noonan Thomas (Tommy Noonan was a comedy film performer, screenwriter and producer. He is best-known as Gus Esmond, Marilyn Monroe's wealthy boyfriend in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and as the musician Danny McGuire in A Star Is Born. In the 50's he formed a comedy team with Peter Marshall who later hosted the Hollywood Squares.)

Novak Eva (Eva Barbara Novak was a film actress, popular during the silent film era. Novak began as a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty in 1917's Roped into Scandal, plus seven more films that year. She was in 17 films in 1918, and eight in 1919. In 1920, she starred opposite Tom Mix in The Daredevil, one of six films she had that year, and one of 10 films starring opposite Tom Mix. Novak was interested in doing her own stunts, having been taught by Mix. From 1921-28, she was in 48 films, including an early version of Boston Blackie, The Medicine Man (1930) Jack Benny, and in the 1922 film Chasing the Moon, which was an early forerunner of the 1950s film D.O.A. In 1921, she married stuntman William Reed, after meeting on location. They had two children, Vivian and Pamela. In the late 1920s, they moved to Australia, where she made numerous films, including The Romance of Runnibede. Her popularity faded with incoming talkies, though she would continue to act until 1965, mostly in obscure roles.)

Novak Jane (Jane Novak was an actress in silent films. She began acting in 1913 after she was invited to Hollywood by her aunt, actress Anne Schafer. She met Frank Newburg, a leading actor and co-worker with Anne, and they married in 1915, but divorced in 1918. She played opposite Wallace Beery, Tom Mix, Hobart Bosworth, Alan Hale, Thomas Moore, and Lewis Stone. She made five movies with William S Hart, and they were engaged but never married. By March 1922 she had her own company, making $1,500 per week.. Novak's last starring role was with Richard Dix in the Technicolor production Redskin (1929). Novak made only a handful of talkies, including World War II era The Yanks Are Coming featuring Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom. She also was in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent in 1940. Novak's last appearance was in 1988 for the documentary, Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius. In 1974, r published a cookbook, Treasury of Chicken Cooking, which is a collection of 300 recipes, all of them her own.)

Novello Jay (Italian-American Novello began in radio, sometimes using various accents. He played Lieutenant Sam Sabaaya on Rocky Jordan, Jamison the butler on Lone Wolf, Judge Glenn Hunter on One Man's Family, and Mr. Negley, the mailman on My Favorite Husband. On film, his roles included pompous or fussy professionals, and assorted ethnic characters. Credits include the Spanish consul in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, The Pride and the Passion, and What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?. Novello's first TV role was on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show in 1951. He was on I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Bat Masterson, The Donna Reed Show, The Real McCoys, and six episodes of 77 Sunset Strip. On The Andy Griffith Show, he played a thief who gets the Key to the City. He was on McHale's Navy seven times as Mayor Mario Lugatto of Volta Fiore, Italy. On Perry Mason, he played a pompous coin collector in "The Case of the Captain's Coins". He was also on 12 O'Clock High, Combat!, and The Rat Patrol.)

Omalley Pat (Pat O'Malley played strong leading roles in silent movies, then lesser roles in talkies, including Lassie Come Home, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Days of Wine and Roses, Apache Rifles, and TV's Thriller and The Twilight Zone.)

Orsatti Ernest (Ernie Orsatti played baseball for the 1925 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Bunnies minor league team with a batting average of .347 and 6 home runs. In the pros, he was played outfield and first base from 1927-1935 for the St. Louis Cardinals with a lifetime batting average of .306 in 701 games, including the 1928, 1930, 1931 and 1934 World Series. He was hired as assistant property master on Sherlock Jr. (1924) because director Buster Keaton was a big baseball fan and insisted on playing baseball on the sets of all his films.)

Parker William (William Parker was a Los Angeles policeman before and after his service in WWII, and eventually Police Chief. The former LAPD headquarters known as Parker Center was named after him.)

Phillips William (William Phillips was an actor known for Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Detective Story, Till the Clouds Roll By, and Hellcats of the Navy,)

Quillan Eddie (Eddie Quillan was working in his family's vaudeville act by age 7, then acted in 2-reelers for Mack Sennett.. He was the lead in The Godless Girl (1929) and The Sophomore (1929), and had supporting roles in Big Money, Girl Crazy, Mutiny on the Bounty, Young Mr. Lincoln, and The Grapes of Wrath. After a time as a bowling alley operator, he returned to acting on TV, including Julia, Mannix, and in friend Michael Landon's Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy, and Highway to Heaven.)

Quinn Bill (Bill Quinn was working in vaudeville at age 6, was on radio's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, and Just Plain Bill. He acted in TV's Hawaiian Eye, as the bartender in The Rifleman, McHale's Navy, The Virginian, Bonanza, The Big Valley, Ironside, Mannix, The FBI, McMillan & Wife, The Bob Newhart Show, All In The Family, Little House on the Prairie, and Archie Bunker's Place. He was in the movie The Birds, and played McCoys father in Star Trek V.)

Reidel Judith (Judith Riedel, as Judith Rawlins, acted in 20,000 Eyes (1961), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and G.I. Blues (1960) with Elvis Presley. She was divorced from singer Vic Damone at the time of her Darvon overdose.)

Rodriguez Estelita (Estelita Rodriguez was a Cuban actress best known for her roles in many Roy Rogers westerns, starting with Along the Navajo Trail, Twilight in the Sierras, and In Old Amarillo. She was also in Howard Hawks' 1959 western classic Rio Bravo. Her last film was 1966's Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter. Married 4 times, the second to Grant Withers with actor John Wayne as best man, and lastly to Dr. Ricardo Pego. She was found dead on her kitchen floor. Likely older than marker.)

Sampson Nora (Nora Sampson, nicknamed Teddy, acted in silent films including Standing Pat (1921), At the Postern Gate (1915) and A Child of the Surf (1915). She was married to Ford Sterling, the police chief in the Keystone Cops comedies.)

San Juan Olga (Olga San Juan began in radio. During the 1940s, she appeared most notably musicals often as a dancer and singer. Credits include Rainbow Island, Duffy's Tavern, Blue Skies, Variety Girl, Are You with It? and The Countess of Monte Cristo. She had a featured role in the Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon. Formerly married to actor Edmund O'Brien.)

Turich Felipe (Felipe Turich was a dancer, then a theater comedian with his wife Rosa. He acted in Branded, Giant, and The Magnificent Seven.)

Valens Richie (Musician Richard Steven Valenzuela, known as Richie Valens. had a huge hit with La Bamba in 1958. He died in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and JP Richardson (The Big Bopper).)

Westerfield James (Actor James Westerfield was in Disney films including The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor and Son of Flubber. He may be best remembered as Big Mac from On the Waterfront.)

Wyatt Jane (Actress Jane Wyatt was in The Lost Horizon and Gentlemen's Agreement, but is probably best-known as Margaret Anderson on TV's Father Knows Best. She was also Spock's mother on Star Trek.)

Yarnell Bruce (Bruce Yarnell acted in TV's Outlaws, Hogan's Heroes, Bonanza, and The Smothers Brothers. He was also a baritone operatic singer. He crashed the plane he was flying.)

Lynch Ken (Ken Lynch was an actor with over 180 credits. Lynch began his acting career on radio, and on The Bishop and the Gargoyle, he played the Gargoyle, an ex-convict who helped the Bishop solve crimes. He was on the daytime radio soap operas Backstage Wife, Portia Faces Life, and A Woman of America. In 1950, Lynch starred in One Thousand Dollars Reward, a crime drama, where after the episode had ended, the host call a random listener who would then try to solve the mystery. From 1949-1954, Lynch starred in The Plainclothesman on TV. Other TV included Peter Gunn, Zorro, Have Gun - Will Travel, Checkmate, The Asphalt Jungle, Straightaway, The Honeymooners, The Fugitive, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Blue Light, Adam-12, Star Trek, Maverick, All In The Family, The Twilight Zone, The Rifleman, and The Wild Wild West. He appeared in 12 episodes of Gunsmoke, 10 episodes of The FBI, nine episodes of Bonanza, and six episodes in both The Virginian and Gomer Pyle USMC, and three appearances on Perry Mason. He had 16 appearances on McCloud. Films include I Married a Monster from Outer Space, North By Northwest, The Lawbreakers, Pork Chop Hill, Anatomy of a Murder and Tora! Tora! Tora!. His last performance was as Rear Admiral Talbot Gray in The Winds of War mini-series. About 1970, Lynch bought a flower shop in North Hollywood and began studying floriculture and taking courses in floral arranging and design, and then providing flowers for local weddings, receptions, and other events.)

Rivero Julian (Julian Rivero was an American actor who made his film debut in the 1923 silent melodrama, The Bright Shawl. His first featured role was in 1924's western, Fast and Fearless. During the early 1930s, while Hollywood was still making versions of films in different languages, Rivero continued to be cast in Spanish language films. His first sound film in English was God's Country and the Man. During the 1930s and 1940s many roles were in westerns including Winner Take All, Diamond Jim, Heroes of the Alamo, Down Argentine Way, and Blood and Sand. He had small role in the 1942 remake of Rio Rita starring Abbott and Costello, and he played a Spanish official in Woman of the Year. He was a monk in The Song of Bernadette, a waiter in Laurel and Hardy's final film, The Bullfighters. He played a government clerk in Anna and the King of Siam, the manservant in Road to Rio, and the barber in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Films from the 1950's include Broken Arrow, Sirocco, East of Eden, Giant, Don't Go Near the Water in which Rivero had a featured role, and Houseboat. TV included Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, Broken Arrow, Rawhide, and after taking a break, was on The Fugitive, I Spy, Family Affair, The Flying Nun, Mannix, and Medical Center. His final role was as Gitano in the 1973 TV movie, The Red Pony, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara.)

Abbott Philip (Philip Abbott was an actor and director known for The F.B.I. (1965), General Hospital (1963) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Abbott was a co-founder of Theatre West, a Los Angeles stage company. He served as the honorary mayor of Tarzana in the early 1970s, and served terms as the president and board chairman of the Los Angeles United Cerebral Palsy-Spastic Children's Foundation.)

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