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The Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary is located at 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, in Culver City, California, USA. A number of prominent individuals of the Jewish faith, including a number from the entertainment industry, are buried or entombed here, such as:

• Irving Aaronson, composer
• Sheldon Allman, actor/singer/songwriter
• Alice Allyn (1929-1976), actress
• Sandy Baron, actor and comedian
• Gene Barry, actor
• Jack Benny, comedian
• Henry Bergman, actor
• Milton Berle, comedian
• Michael Bloomfield, blues/rock guitarist
• Mary Livingstone-Benny, radio actor
• Ben Blue, actor
• Sorrell Booke, actor
• Richard Brooks, film director
• Susan Cabot, actress
• Eddie Cantor, actor, screenwriter
• Nell Carter, actress
• Jeff Chandler, actor
• Cyd Charisse, actress, dancer
• Mickey Cohen, mobster
• Ray Dannis, actor
• Max Factor, Sr., cosmetics magnate
• Max Factor, Jr., cosmetics businessman
• Sidney Factor, cosmetics businessman
• Percy Faith, band leader
• Friz Freleng, film animator, writer, director, producer
• L. Wolfe Gilbert, composer (original interment site)
• Sid Gillman, Hall of Fame football coach
• William Goetz, producer, President of Universal Pictures
• Adam Goldstein (aka DJ AM), DJ
• Jerry Goldsmith, composer
• Carl Greenberg, newspaper reporter and editor (Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Times)
• Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tigers baseball great
• Lorne Greene, voice of the CBC, actor: 'Ben Cartwright' on "Bonanza"
• Ruth Handler, business executive who invented the Barbie doll
• Lou Holtz, actor
• Moe Howard,actor,comedian, member of the Three Stooges
• Sally Insul, actress^[1]
• Arthur P. Jacobs, film producer, Planet of the Apes series, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• David Janssen, actor, TV's "The Fugitive"
• George Jessel, actor
• Al Jolson, musician, actor, entertainer (His monument was designed by Paul R. Williams)
• Mickey Katz, comedy bandleader, father of Joel Grey
• Sam Katzman, producer
• Paul Kohner, producer
• Ely Landau, film and TV producer
• Michael Landon, actor
• Abe Lastfogel, Chairman, William Morris talent agency
• Sheldon Leonard, actor, producer
• Jules Levy, producer
• Abby Mann, writer
• Hal March, comedian, actor
• Howard Morris, actor
• Vic Morrow, actor, victim of filmmaking accident
• Jan Murray, comedian, actor
• Shelly Novack, actor
• Louis Nye, comedian, actor
• Joe Pasternak, film producer
• Julia Phillips, author, film producer
• Suzanne Pleshette, actress
• Tom Poston, actor (was not Jewish, but was married to Suzanne Pleshette at the time of his death^[2])
• Paul Richards, actor
• Leo Robin, composer
• Stanley Ralph Ross, writer, actor
• Jerry Rubin, Yippie turned businessman, member of the Chicago Seven
• Dick Shawn, actor, comedian
• Allan Sherman, musician, actor, voice of The Cat in the Hat
• Dinah Shore, entertainer
• George Sidney, director, producer
• Aaron Spelling, producer
• Peter Tomarken, game show host, best known for Press Your Luck
• Lupita Tovar, actress (Future Burial Site)
• Irving Wallace, author
• Sol M. Wurtzel, film producer
• Irene Mayer Selznick, theatrical producer
• Lew Wasserman, agent, studio executive
• Shelley Winters, actress

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