Harvey Henderson Whitley rests under a simple marble marker in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He coined the name Hollywood after meeting a woman on a train who owned an estate in Illinois with that same title. By nineteen hundred and two,…
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Graves
Walk the lush, peaceful grounds of Hollywood's most legendary resting place to visit the monuments of historic founders, music icons, and silent film stars.
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1. Grave of H J Whitley, The Father of Hollywood
2. Grave of Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer
The grave of Carl Switzer sits in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, marked by a flat bronze plaque that includes an engraving of a hound dog. Known to millions as Alfalfa from the Our Gang comedies, Switzer spent his later years working as a…
3. Johnny Ramone Monument
A bronze statue of Johnny Ramone stands six feet tall at the entrance of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, clutching his Mosrite guitar with a stiff, down-stroke posture. His wife, Linda Ramone, commissioned the monument after his death in two…
4. Grave of Chris Cornell
The bronze statue of Chris Cornell stands over his final resting place in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He holds a guitar with his eyes fixed toward the horizon, his likeness cast in the same rock-and-roll stance he took on thousands of…
5. Toto (Dog), cenotaph (Hollywood Forever Cemetery)
The life-sized bronze statue of a Cairn Terrier sits atop a granite pedestal in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Terry, the dog who played Toto in The Wizard of Oz, is buried here. She earned a weekly salary of one hundred twenty-five…
6. Rudolph Valentino Final Resting Place
The crypt of Rudolph Valentino sits in the Cathedral Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, identified by a simple bronze plaque bearing his name and the dates nineteen twenty-six. Valentino was the biggest star of the silent film era,…