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Cemetery Details
Calvary Cemetery
Country:	United States
Location:	East Los Angeles, California
Type:	Roman Catholic
Owned by:	Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles

The Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, located at 4201 Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. It is also called "New Calvary Cemetery" because the original 1896 cemetery on North Broadway was moved to make way for Cathedral High School.

Notable burials

Kathryn Adams (1893-1959), actress
King Baggot (1879-1948), actor, screenwriter/director
Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954), actor
Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959), actress
Eugenie Besserer (1868-1934), actress
Francelia Billington (1895-1934), actress
Sister Karen Boccalero (1933-1997) founder, Self Help Graphics
Richard Boleslawski (1889-1937), film director
Mary Carr (1874-1973), actress
Eddie Collins (1883-1940) actor, voice of Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
John Henry "Big Jack, Sr." Coogan, Jr. (1886-1935), vaudeville performer (dancer), producer, father of John Leslie "Jackie" Coogan
Helene Costello (1906-1957), actress
Lou Costello (1906-1959), actor, part of comedy team, "Abbott & Costello"
Dolores Costello (1903-1979), actress
Mae Costello (1882-1929), actress
Maurice Costello (1877-1950) actor
Henry Dalton, Azusa founder and creator of honey industry
Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935), oil tycoon
Jack Dragna (1891–1956), Los Angeles crime family Boss
William W. Dixon (1838-1910) U.S. Representative (Democrat, Fifty-Second Congress). Later moved to Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Irene Dunne (1898-1990), actress
Henry Gage (1852-1924), governor of California
Cedric Gibbons (1893-1960), prolific film art director and production designer
Elaine Hammerstein, (1897-1948), actress
Ted Healy, (1896-1937), actor
John Hodiak (1914-1955), actor
Mervin King (1914-2008) Los Angeles Police Department Captain
Emilio Kosterlitzky (1853-1928), Russian-born linguist and soldier of fortune
Leno La Bianca (1925-1969), murdered by the Charles Manson family
Mary McCarty (1922-1980), actress
Bull Montana (1887-1950), wrestler, actor
Matt Moore (1888-1960), actor
Owen Moore (1886-1939), actor
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1885-1941), musician/composer of jazz and blues
J. Carrol Naish (1897-1973), actor
Pola Negri (1894-1987), actress
Mabel Normand (1892-1930), actress
Ramon Novarro (1899-1968), actor
Mary Philbin (1903-1993), actress
Hal Roach, Jr. (1918-1972), film producer
Harry F. Sinclair (1876-1956), oil industrialist
Victor Varconi (1891-1976), Hungarian-born American actor