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Jeff Adachi (b. 1959) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., August
29, 1959.
Democrat. Lawyer; San
Francisco Public Defender; writer, director, and producer of two
film documentaries, The Slanted Screen (2006), and
You Don't Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story (2009); candidate for
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 2011.
Japanese
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association.
Still living as of 2011.
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Tom R. Ammiano (b. 1941) —
also known as Tom Ammiano —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Montclair, Essex
County, N.J., December
15, 1941.
Democrat. School
teacher; movie stuntman; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1999, 2003; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 2000;
member of California
state assembly 13th District, 2009.
Gay.
Still living as of 2009.
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Angelyne (born c.1958) —
also known as "Angelyne Billboardqueen" —
of California.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., about 1958.
Actress and model; Independent candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Female.
Still living as of 2009.
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Edward Arnold (1890-1956) —
also known as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1890.
Republican. Actor; appeared in more than 150 movies,
most during 1932-56; president,
Screen Actors Guild, 1940-42; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California.
German
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
26, 1956 (age 66 years, 68
days).
Interment at San
Fernando Mission Cemetery, San Fernando, Calif.
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Carlos Alan Autry (b. 1952) —
also known as Alan Autry; Carlos Brown —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., July 31,
1952.
Republican. Played pro
football for the Green Bay Packers in 1975-76; television and
movie actor; mayor of
Fresno, Calif., 2001-09; radio news
talk show host.
Still living as of 2014.
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Carlos Joaquin Barbé (1902-1964) —
also known as Carlos Barbé —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay,
August
17, 1902.
Actor in movies of the 1930s and 1940s; Honorary
Vice-Consul for Uruguay in Hollywood,
Calif., 1940-48.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 28,
1964 (age 61 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edward James Begley Jr. (b. 1949) —
also known as Ed Begley, Jr. —
of Ojai, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
16, 1949.
Democrat. Actor; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1988
(speaker).
Irish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2022.
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Alphonzo Edward Bell Jr. (1914-2004) —
also known as Alphonzo Bell —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
19, 1914.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II;
president, Bell Oil
Company, 1947-59; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1956;
California
Republican state chair, 1956-59; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1956-59; U.S.
Representative from California, 1961-77 (16th District 1961-63,
28th District 1963-75, 27th District 1975-77); candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1969; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1976.
Died, from complications of pneumonia,
in St. John's Hospital,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
25, 2004 (age 89 years, 219
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Rex Bell (1903-1962) —
also known as George Anthony Beldam; George Francis
Beldam —
of Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., October
16, 1903.
Republican. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1944; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Nevada, 1948
(alternate), 1952
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1960
(delegation chair); Lieutenant
Governor of Nevada, 1954-62; died in office 1962.
Cowboy film star who appeared in numerous movies from
1928 to 1952.
While running
for governor, died of a heart
attack, in Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev., July 4,
1962 (age 58 years, 261
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Ralph Rexford Bellamy (1904-1991) —
also known as Ralph Bellamy —
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 17,
1904.
Democrat. Actor; appeared in more than 100 movies; his most
famous role was as Franklin
D. Roosevelt in "Sunrise at Campobello"; board
member, Screen Actors Guild; president,
Actors Equity; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Member, Screen
Actors Guild.
Died, from a lung
ailment, in St. John's Health
Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
29, 1991 (age 87 years, 165
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Jello Biafra (b. 1958) —
also known as Eric Reed Boucher; "Occupant";
"Count Ringworm" —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., June 17,
1958.
Co-founder, lead singer,
and songwriter
for the punk
rock band Dead Kennedys (1978-86); founder of the Alternative
Tentacles record label; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1979; charged,
in Los Angeles in 1986, with distributing obscene
"harmful matter" in the form of a sexually
explicit print distributed with a Dead Kennedys record album;
following a trial,
the jury deadlocked, a mistrial was declared, and charges were
dismissed; Biafra went on to become a spoken word performer;
on May 7, 1994, he was assaulted
and injured at a music club in Berkeley, Calif., by five or six
attackers who called him a "sellout".
Atheist.
Still living as of 2014.
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Shirley Jane Temple Black (1928-2014) —
also known as Shirley Temple Black; Shirley
Temple —
of West Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Woodside, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
23, 1928.
Professional actress in 1932-49; appeared in about 25 movies;
most famous child star in history; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 11th District, 1967; U.S.
Ambassador to Ghana, 1974-76; Czechoslovakia, 1989-92.
Female.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Woodside, San Mateo
County, Calif., February
10, 2014 (age 85 years, 293
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Sonny Bono (1935-1998) —
also known as Salvatore Philip Bono; Sonny Christie;
Ronny Sommers; Prince Carter —
of Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., February
16, 1935.
Republican. Songwriter,
actor, member of the Sonny & Cher singing and
comedy duo;; restaurant
owner; mayor
of Palm Springs, Calif., 1988-92; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1992; U.S.
Representative from California 44th District, 1995-98; died in
office 1998.
Catholic
or Scientologist.
Italian
ancestry.
Killed in a skiing
accident, South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado
County, Calif., January
5, 1998 (age 62 years, 323
days).
Interment at Desert
Memorial Park, Cathedral City, Calif.
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Lloyd Bridges (1913-1998) —
also known as Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. —
Born in San Leandro, Alameda
County, Calif., January
15, 1913.
Democrat. Actor; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
English
ancestry. Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
10, 1998 (age 85 years, 54
days).
Cremated.
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Vanessa Brown (1928-1999) —
also known as Smylla Brynd; Tessa Brind —
of Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Vienna, Austria,
March
24, 1928.
Democrat. Actress; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1956;
honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Jewish.
Died, from breast
cancer, at the Motion Picture Country Home,
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 21,
1999 (age 71 years, 58
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Mary Carey (b. 1981) —
also known as Mary Ellen Cook —
of California.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, June 15,
1981.
Actress in pornographic
movies; Independent candidate for Governor of
California, 2003; arrested
in April 2005 during a raid on a strip
club in Lakewood, Wash.; charged
with touching
herself while dancing; pleaded
guilty and received a suspended
sentence.
Female.
Still living as of 2013.
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Marilyn Chambers (1952-2009) —
also known as Marilyn Ann Briggs; Evelyn Lang;
Marilyn Chambers Taylor —
Born in Providence, Providence
County, R.I., April
22, 1952.
Model; Actress in pornographic
movies; gun
dealer; Personal Choice candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 2004.
Female.
Bisexual.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage and an aneurysm,
in Santa Clarita, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
12, 2009 (age 56 years, 355
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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Nat King Cole (1919-1965) —
also known as Nathaniel Adams Coles —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala., March
17, 1919.
Singer;
musician;
actor; honored guest, Republican National Convention,
1956 ; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
NAACP.
Died, from lung
cancer, in St. John's Hospital,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
15, 1965 (age 45 years, 335
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Gary Wayne Coleman (1968-2010) —
also known as Gary Coleman —
of California.
Born in Zion, Lake
County, Ill., February
8, 1968.
Actor on television and in movies; Independent candidate for
Governor
of California, 2003.
Died May 28,
2010 (age 42 years, 109
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Conte (1910-1975) —
also known as Nicholas Peter Conte —
Born in Jersey City, Hudson
County, N.J., March
24, 1910.
Democrat. Actor; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
15, 1975 (age 65 years, 22
days).
Interment at Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Wendell Reid Corey (1914-1968) —
also known as Wendell Corey —
of Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Dracut, Middlesex
County, Mass., March
20, 1914.
Republican. Actor on Broadway, in movies, and on television;
president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
1961-63; board
member, Screen Actors Guild; member, Santa Monica city council,
1965-68; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1956,
1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California, 1966.
Died, from liver
cirrhosis, in the Motion Picture and Television Hospital,
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
8, 1968 (age 54 years, 233
days).
Interment at Washington Cemetery, Washington, Mass.
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Shirley M. Crawford (1872-1917) —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., August
5, 1872.
Republican. Actor; newspaper
writer; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
law partner of Augustus
E. Willson; Honorary
Consul for Guatemala in Louisville,
Ky., 1901-07; in February 1905, amidst a controversy over the
appointment of a new Colonel, a military court of inquiry was
convened to investigate
the officers of the First Kentucky regiment, including a Major and
six Captains, for willful
disobedience; all were releived of duty, but Capt. Crawford was
singled out as "an agitator and fomenter of strife, disloyal and
insubordinate to his superior officers," and ordered court-martialed;
secretary-treasurer and director, Kentucky-Arizona Copper
Company (engaged in mining and
smelting).
Hit by
a car while crossing a street, suffered a fractured leg and pneumonia,
and died two weeks later, in German Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., September
6, 1917 (age 45 years, 32
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at San
Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
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Randolph A. Credico (b. 1954) —
also known as Randy Credico —
Born in Pomona, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 5,
1954.
Comedian; Libertarian candidate for U.S.
Senator from New York, 2010; candidate in Democratic primary for
mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 2013; candidate in Democratic primary for
Governor
of New York, 2014.
Still living as of 2014.
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Michael Curb (b. 1944) —
also known as Mike Curb —
of California; Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., December
24, 1944.
Republican. Musician;
record company executive; race
car owner; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1977; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1979-83; defeated, 1986; candidate for Governor of
California, 1982.
In 2003, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of
Fame.
Still living as of 2014.
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Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) —
also known as Samuel George Davis —
Born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
8, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; singer; dancer;
actor; injured in an automobile accident in 1954, and lost his
left eye; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Jewish.
African
and Cuban
ancestry.
Received the Spingarn
Medal in 1968.
Died, from complications of throat
cancer, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 16,
1990 (age 64 years, 159
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Rosemary DeCamp (1910-2001) —
Born in Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz., November
14, 1910.
Democrat. Actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Torrance, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
20, 2001 (age 90 years, 98
days).
Cremated.
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Cecil Blount deMille (1881-1959) —
also known as Cecil B. deMille —
of Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ashfield, Franklin
County, Mass., August
12, 1881.
Republican. Actor and theatrical manager 1900-12;
director and producer of over 70 films from 1913
to 1959, including two versions of The Ten Commandments (1923
and 1956); co-founder of the company that became known as Paramount
Pictures; delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1936,
1944.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
21, 1959 (age 77 years, 162
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) —
also known as Walt Disney; "Uncle
Walt" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
5, 1901.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for California.
Irish
ancestry.
Producer or director of several hundred films
from 1922 until the 1960s; creator and first voice of Mickey Mouse;
founder of Disney entertainment company and of Disneyland, the
world's first
theme park; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964. In honor of his
invention of the multiplane camera, he is an inductee to the National
Inventors Hall of
Fame.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
15, 1966 (age 65 years, 10
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.; statue erected 1993 at Disneyland,
Anaheim, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Elias Disney and Flora (Call) Disney; married, July 13,
1925, to Lillian Marie Bounds. |
| | | Cross-reference: George
J. Mitchell |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Walt Disney: Richard
Schickel, The
Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt
Disney — Leonard Mosley, Disney's
World: A Biography — Katherine Greene & Richard
Greene, The
Man Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney — Bob
Thomas, Walt
Disney: An American Original — Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Discovering
Walt: The Magical Life of Walt Disney (for young
readers) |
| | | Image source: Boy Scouts of
America |
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Robert Kenneth Dornan (b. 1933) —
also known as Bob Dornan; "B-1
Bob" —
of Garden Grove, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1933.
Republican. Broadcaster,
journalist,
television producer; won two Emmy awards for his television
show; appeared in several movies including The
Starfighters, To The Shores of Hell, and Hell on
Wheels; candidate for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1973; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1976,
1992;
U.S.
Representative from California, 1977-83, 1985-97 (27th District
1977-83, 38th District 1985-93, 46th District 1993-97); defeated,
1996, 1998; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1996.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion; Knights
of Columbus.
Still living as of 2014.
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Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980) —
also known as Helen Gahagan; "The Pink
Lady" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Boonton, Morris
County, N.J., November
25, 1900.
Actress and opera
singer, 1922-38; member of Democratic
National Committee from California, 1940-44; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1940
(alternate), 1944
(speaker),
1948;
vice-chair
of California Democratic Party, 1941-42; U.S.
Representative from California 14th District, 1945-51; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from California, 1950 (Democratic), 1952 (Independent).
Female.
Scottish
and Irish
ancestry. Member, League of Women
Voters; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died, of cancer,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 28,
1980 (age 79 years, 216
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Melvyn Douglas (1901-1981) —
also known as Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Macon, Bibb
County, Ga., April 5,
1901.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1940;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Actor,
producer, director of many motion pictures;
worked in radio, television,
and Broadway.
Jewish
and Scottish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Americans
for Democratic Action; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died, of pneumonia
and cardiac
complications, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., August
4, 1981 (age 80 years, 121
days).
Cremated.
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Gerard T. Doyle (b. 1956) —
also known as Jerry Doyle —
of California.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., July 16,
1956.
Republican. Corporate jet
pilot; actor in films and television series; candidate for
U.S.
Representative from California 24th District, 2000.
Still living as of 2014.
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Clinton Eastwood Jr. (b. 1930) —
also known as Clint Eastwood —
of Pebble Beach, Monterey
County, Calif.; Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey
County, Calif.
Born in St. Mary's Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., May 31,
1930.
Republican. Movie actor, producer, director; restaurant
and hotel
owner; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1972;
speaker, 2012;
mayor, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, 1986-88.
Scottish,
Irish,
Dutch,
and English
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Motley H. Flint (1864-1930) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Somerville, Middlesex
County, Mass., February
19, 1864.
Republican. Postmaster at Los
Angeles, Calif., 1904-10; banker;
provided critical support for the Warner Brothers Movie studio
in its early years; one of the promoters of Julian Petroleum
Corporation, a Ponzi
scheme which collapsed in 1927; about 40,000 investors lost their
money; tainted by the scandal,
he moved to Europe for a time.
Member, Freemasons.
Called as a witness in a civil suit involving David
O. Selznick; after his testimony, as he returned to the audience
section of the courtroom,
in Los Angeles City
Hall, he was shot and
killed
by Frank Keaton, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 14,
1930 (age 66 years, 145
days). Keaton, who had lost his money in Julian Petroleum, was
immediately arrested, and subsequently tried, convicted, and hanged.
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Glenn Ford (1916-2006) —
also known as Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford —
Born in Quebec City, Quebec,
May
1, 1916.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; served in the U.S. Marine Corps
during World War II; film and television actor in dozens of
roles; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1972.
Welsh
and English
ancestry.
Died in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
30, 2006 (age 90 years, 121
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Santa Monica, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Newton Ford and Hannah Ford; married, October
23, 1943, to Eleanor Powell; married, March
27, 1966, to Kathryn Hays; married, September
10, 1977, to Cynthia Hayward; married, March 5,
1993, to Jeanne Baus. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Anthony Franciosa (1928-2006) —
also known as Tony Franciosa; Anthony George
Papaleo —
of Brentwood, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
25, 1928.
Democrat. Actor; hit and
kicked a press photographer at the Los Angeles Civic Center on
April 19, 1957; arrested
for assault,
pleaded
guilty, served to ten days in jail,
and fined
$250; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Italian
ancestry.
Suffered a stroke,
and died a few days later, in UCLA Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
19, 2006 (age 77 years, 86
days).
Cremated.
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Leo Anthony Gallagher (b. 1946) —
also known as Leo Gallagher;
"Gallagher" —
of California.
Born in Fort Bragg, Cumberland
County, N.C., July 24,
1946.
Comedian; Independent candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2014.
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John Anthony Gavin (b. 1931) —
also known as John A. Gavin; Jack Gavin; John
Anthony Golenor —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 8,
1931.
Actor in many movies since 1956; president,
Screen Actors Guild, 1971-73; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1981-86.
Still living as of 2003.
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William Goetz (1903-1969) —
of Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
24, 1903.
Democrat. Hollywood movie producer and studio executive;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1956,
1960.
Jewish.
Died, of cancer,
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
15, 1969 (age 66 years, 144
days).
Interment at Hillside
Memorial Park, Culver City, Calif.
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Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle (b. 1969) —
also known as Kimberly Guilfoyle —
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March 9,
1969.
Republican. Lawyer;
model; television
personality; speaker, Republican National Convention, 2020.
Female.
Irish
and Puerto
Rican ancestry.
Still living as of 2022.
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Marilyn Hare (1923-1981) —
Born in Flushing, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., October
13, 1923.
Democrat. Singer;
actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Died, from cancer,
in a hospital
at Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
9, 1981 (age 57 years, 361
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Thomas Hayden (b. 1939) —
also known as Tom Hayden —
of Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., December
11, 1939.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
1988
(member, Platform
Committee), 1996,
2000.
Irish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) —
also known as "The Chief" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., April
29, 1863.
Newspaper
publishing magnate; candidate for Presidential Elector for New
York; U.S.
Representative from New York 11th District, 1903-07; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1904;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1905 (Municipal Ownership), 1909;
Democratic candidate for Governor of
New York, 1906; Independence League candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1910; movie producer in 1915-21; the
film Citizen Kane is based on his life.
Died in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
14, 1951 (age 88 years, 107
days).
Entombed at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Van Heflin (1910-1971) —
also known as Emmett Evan Heflin Jr. —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Walters, Cotton
County, Okla., December
13, 1910.
Democrat. Actor; served in the U.S. Army during World War II;
speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1948.
Irish
and French
ancestry. Member, Phi
Delta Theta.
Suffered a heart
attack while swimming,
and died six weeks later, in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 23,
1971 (age 60 years, 222
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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John Mills Houston (1890-1975) —
also known as John M. Houston —
of Newton, Harvey
County, Kan.; Wichita, Sedgwick
County, Kan.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Formoso, Jewell
County, Kan., September
15, 1890.
Democrat. Actor; served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World
War I; lumber
dealer; mayor of
Newton, Kan., 1927-31; U.S.
Representative from Kansas 5th District, 1935-43; defeated, 1942;
member, National Labor Relations Board, 1943-53; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Kansas, 1944.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Lions.
Died in Laguna Beach, Orange
County, Calif., April
29, 1975 (age 84 years, 226
days).
Entombed at Melrose
Abbey Memorial Park, Anaheim, Calif.
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Milford Wriarson Howard (1862-1937) —
also known as Milford W. Howard —
of Fort Payne, DeKalb
County, Ala.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born near Rome, Floyd
County, Ga., February
18, 1862.
U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1895-99; novelist;
appeared as an actor in a silent movie based on one of
his novels; one of the editors of the conservative magazine
The Awakener in the 1930s.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
28, 1937 (age 75 years, 313
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Sallie
Howard Memorial Chapel, Mentone, Ala.
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George Albert Jessel (1898-1981) —
also known as George Jessel; "Toastmaster General of
the United States" —
Born in Bronx, New York County (now Bronx
County), N.Y., April 3,
1898.
Democrat. Actor; songwriter;
movie producer; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Jewish.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 23,
1981 (age 83 years, 50
days).
Entombed at Hillside
Memorial Park, Culver City, Calif.
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Clara Kahler (b. 1880) —
also known as Clara Felecia Goodman —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Auburn, DeKalb
County, Ind., March 8,
1880.
Democrat. Stenographer;
actress; candidate for California
state senate, 1946.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, American
Legion Auxiliary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Benedict Goodman and Margaret (Von Hohenstein) Goodman;
married to John Kahler. |
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Julius Kahn (1861-1924) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Kuppenheim, Baden (now Germany),
February
28, 1861.
Republican. Actor; lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1892; U.S.
Representative from California 4th District, 1899-1903, 1905-24;
died in office 1924.
Jewish.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., December
18, 1924 (age 63 years, 294
days).
Interment at Home
of Peace Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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Casey Kasem (b. 1932) —
also known as Kemal Amin Kazem —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., April
27, 1932.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; radio disc
jockey; actor; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1988.
Druze.
Lebanese
and Palestinian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Phyllis Kirk (1927-2006) —
also known as Phyllis Kirkegaard —
Born in Syracuse, Onondaga
County, N.Y., September
18, 1927.
Democrat. Actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Danish
ancestry.
Died, from a cerebral
aneurysm, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
19, 2006 (age 79 years, 31
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Sheila James Kuehl (b. 1941) —
also known as Sheila J. Kuehl —
of California.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., February
9, 1941.
Democrat. Professional actress in 1950-67, best known for her
role as "Zelda Gilroy" in the 1959-63 television comedy
series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis".; lawyer;
member of California
state assembly 41st District, 1992-2000; member of California
state senate 23rd District, 2000-; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 2000.
Female.
Lesbian.
Still living as of 2014.
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Nancy Jane Kulp (1921-1991) —
also known as Nancy Kulp; "Slim" —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., August
28, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy WAVES during World War II;
professional actress, best known for her role as "Jane
Hathaway"in the 1962-71 television comedy series
"The Beverly Hillbillies".; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 9th District, 1984.
Female.
Bisexual.
Died, of cancer,
in Palm Desert, Riverside
County, Calif., February
3, 1991 (age 69 years, 159
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Mifflintown, Pa.
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Hope Elise Ross Lange (1933-2003) —
also known as Hope Lange —
Born in Redding Ridge, Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn., November
28, 1933.
Democrat. Actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Died, from ischemic
colitis, in St. Johns Hospital,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
19, 2003 (age 70 years, 21
days).
Cremated.
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Sherry Lansing (b. 1944) —
of California.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 31,
1944.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California,
2000.
Female.
Had a brief acting career; became a motion picture
executive; as president of 20th Century Fox in 1980, was first
woman to head a major studio; producer of five films,
including Fatal Attraction, The Accused, and
Indecent Proposal.
Still living as of 2014.
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Edward Lasker (1912-1997) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born May 15,
1912.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; movie
producer; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1956,
1960;
director, Philip Morris tobacco
company, 1961-80.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 11,
1997 (age 85 years, 57
days).
Burial location unknown.
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David Laurell —
of Burbank, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Writer,
producer, and director for television,
radio,
and film; mayor
of Burbank, Calif., 2002-03.
Still living as of 2003.
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Relatives:
Married to Maxine 'Max' Andrews. |
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Peter Lawford (1923-1984) —
also known as Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen Lawford —
Born in London, England,
September
7, 1923.
Democrat. Actor; naturalized U.S. citizen; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
English
ancestry.
Died, from cardiac
arrest, while suffering from kidney
failure and liver
failure, in Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
24, 1984 (age 61 years, 108
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean; cenotaph at Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford and May Somerville (Bunny) Lawford;
married, October
30, 1971, to Mary Rowan; married, June 25,
1976, to Deborah Gould; married, July 5,
1984, to Patricia Seaton; married, April
24, 1954, to Patricia
Helen Kennedy (daughter of Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, Sr.; sister of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert
Francis Kennedy, Jean
Kennedy Smith and Edward
Moore Kennedy); father of Christopher Lawford. |
| | | Epitaph: "Beloved Husband, Father &
Friend." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Janet Leigh (1927-2004) —
also known as Jeanette Helen Morrison —
Born in Merced, Merced
County, Calif., July 6,
1927.
Democrat. Actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Danish,
Scotch-Irish,
and German
ancestry.
Died, from a heart
attack while also suffering from vasculitis,
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
3, 2004 (age 77 years, 89
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Frederick Robert Morrison and Helen Lita (Westergaard)
Morrison; married, June 4,
1951, to Tony
Curtis; married, August
1, 1942, to John Kenneth Carlisle; married, October
5, 1945, to Stanley Reames; married, September
15, 1962, to Robert Brandt. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Harold Clayton Lloyd (1893-1971) —
also known as Harold Lloyd —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Burchard, Pawnee
County, Neb., April
20, 1893.
Republican. Actor, comedian, film producer;
appeared in over 200 motion pictures; one of the founders,
in 1927, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California,
1948,
1952.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Lost
two fingers in a 1919 accident.
Died, of prostate
cancer, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 8,
1971 (age 77 years, 322
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) —
also known as Shirley MacLean Beaty —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Richmond,
Va., April
24, 1934.
Democrat. Actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960 ; delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1968,
1972.
Female.
English,
Irish,
and Scottish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
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Dudley Field Malone (1882-1950) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Westwood, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 3,
1882.
Lawyer;
U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1913-17; resigned 1917; resigned to protest Wilson
Administration's failure to advocate Woman Suffrage Amendment;
Farmer-Labor candidate for Governor of
New York, 1920; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
New York, 1932;
legal counsel for Twentieth Century-Fox movie studio; played
Winston Churchill in the 1943 movie Mission to Moscow.
Catholic.
Famed for saying, in a speech at the Scopes trial in 1925, "I have
never learned anything from any man who agreed with me." Toward the
end of his life, he appeared in movies as British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, who he resembled.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Culver City Hospital,
Culver City, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
5, 1950 (age 68 years, 124
days).
Interment at Holy
Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Calif.
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Don Martin Mankiewicz (1922-2015) —
also known as Don M. Mankiewicz —
of East Norwich, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.; Long Beach, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Berlin, Germany,
January
30, 1922.
Democrat. Novelist;
screenwriter
for dozens of television shows; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1960
(alternate), 1972;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1967.
Jewish.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in Monrovia, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
25, 2015 (age 93 years, 85
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Bruce Mathias (1930-2006) —
also known as Bob Mathias —
of Tulare, Tulare
County, Calif.; Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Tulare, Tulare
County, Calif., November
17, 1930.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from California 18th District, 1967-75.
Methodist.
Won Olympic
gold medals in decathalon in 1948 and 1952; starred as himself in
a 1954 movie, "The Bob Mathias Story"; inducted into the U.S.
Olympic Hall of
Fame, 1983.
Died, of cancer,
in Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif., September
2, 2006 (age 75 years, 289
days).
Interment at Tulare
Cemetery, Tulare, Calif.
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William Henry Mauldin (1921-2003) —
also known as Bill Mauldin —
of New York.
Born in Mountain Park, Otero
County, N.M., October
29, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Cartoonist,
starting in the Army during World War II; worked as an editorial
cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times
newspapers,
winning the Pulitzer
Prize for editorial cartooning in 1945 and 1959; appeared as an
actor in two 1951 movies: Teresa and The Red Badge
of Courage; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1956.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease and pneumonia,
in a nursing
home at Newport Beach, Orange
County, Calif., January
22, 2003 (age 81 years, 85
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Louis Burt Mayer (1884-1957) —
also known as Louis B. Mayer; Lazar Meir —
of Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass.; Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Dymer, Russia (now Ukraine),
July
12, 1884.
Republican. Owned movie
theaters in New England; moved into the movie production
business starting in 1916; head of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
movie studio, 1924-51; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1928,
1932;
vice-chair
of California Republican Party, 1931-32; California
Republican state chair, 1932-33.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of leukemia
and a kidney
infection, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
29, 1957 (age 73 years, 109
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Home
of Peace Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Sarah (Meltzer) Mayer and Jacob Mayer; married, June 14,
1903, to Margaret
Shenberg (1883-1955) and Margaret Shenberg (divorced 1944);
married, December
4, 1948, to Lorena L. Danker; father of Edith 'Edie' Mayer (who
married William
Goetz) and Irene Gladys Mayer (who married David
Oliver Selznick). |
| | | Political family: Mayer
family of Los Angeles, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Dore
Schary |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Louis B. Mayer: Charles
Higham, Merchant
of Dreams: Louis B. Mayer, MGM, and the Secret
Hollywood — Gary Carey, All
the stars in heaven : Louis B. Mayer's MGM — Diana
Altman, Hollywood
East: Louis B. Mayer and the Origins of the Studio
System — Charles Higham, The
Merchant of Dreams: A Biography of Louis B. Mayer |
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Mercedes McCambridge (1916-2004) —
also known as Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge —
Born in Joliet, Will
County, Ill., March
16, 1916.
Democrat. Actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif., March 2,
2004 (age 87 years, 352
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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Mason Mitchell (b. 1859) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Hamilton, Madison
County, N.Y., February
26, 1859.
Actor; theatrical manager; served in the U.S. Army
during the Spanish-American War; member of Theodore
Roosevelt's "Rough Rider" regiment; U.S. Consul in Zanzibar, 1902-05; Chungking, 1905-08; Apia, 1908-19; Malta, 1922-24; U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in Campbellton, 1905.
Burial location unknown.
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Karen Morley (1909-2003) —
also known as Mildred Linton —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ottumwa, Wapello
County, Iowa, December
12, 1909.
Actress; her career ended in 1947, when she was blacklisted
as a suspected
Communist; American Labor candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1954.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 8,
2003 (age 93 years, 86
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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George Lloyd Murphy (1902-1992) —
also known as George L. Murphy —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., July 4,
1902.
Republican. Professional actor and dancer in
1934-52; appeared in films such as For Me And My Gal,
Battleground; president,
Screen Actors Guild, 1944-46; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1948,
1952
(speaker),
1956,
1960
(alternate); U.S.
Senator from California, 1965-71; defeated, 1970.
Irish
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild.
Died, of leukemia,
in Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, Fla., May 3,
1992 (age 89 years, 304
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Sheree North (1932-2005) —
also known as Dawn Shirley Crang; Dawn Shirley Bethel;
Shirley Mae Bessire —
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
17, 1932.
Democrat. Actress; singer; dancer; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
4, 2005 (age 73 years, 291
days).
Cremated.
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Arthur O'Connell (1908-1981) —
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March
29, 1908.
Democrat. Actor; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 18,
1981 (age 73 years, 50
days).
Interment at Calvary
Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
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Jacqueline Cochran Odlum (1906-1980) —
also known as Jacqueline C. Odlum; Jackie Odlum;
Bessie Lee Pittman; Jacqueline Cochran —
Born in Muscogee, Escambia
County, Fla., May 11,
1906.
Republican. Beautician;
airplane
pilot; during World War II, she trained many women pilots for
duty ferrying supplies; she was the first
woman ever to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, the first
woman pilot ever to break the sound barrier, and to exceed Mach 2; in
1952, she was one of the leaders of the "Draft Ike" movement to
nominate Dwight
D. Eisenhower for president; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 29th District, 1956; elected to
Aviation Hall of
Fame, 1971.
Female.
Died in Indio, Riverside
County, Calif., August
7, 1980 (age 74 years, 88
days).
Interment at Coachella
Valley Public Cemetery, Coachella, Calif.
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Patrick Layton Paulsen (1927-1997) —
also known as Pat Paulsen —
Born in South Bend, Pacific
County, Wash., July 6,
1927.
Actor; comedian; candidate for Republican nomination
for President, 1968,
1972,
1976,
1992;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1996.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Ill with colon
and brain
cancer, he died of complications from pneumonia
and kidney
failure, in Tijuana, Baja
California, April
24, 1997 (age 69 years, 292
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Stephen Peace (b. 1953) —
also known as J. Stephen Peace; Steve
Peace —
of California.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March
30, 1953.
Member of California
state assembly, 1982-93; member of California
state senate, 1993-2002.
Screenwriter,
producer, and actor for the film Attack of the
Killer Tomatoes, which received backhanded acclaim as one of the
worst movies ever made.
Still living as of 2014.
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Horace Garvin Platt (1852-1910) —
also known as Horace G. Platt —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Selma, Dallas
County, Ala., 1852.
Democrat. Lawyer;
orator; member of California
state assembly 9th District, 1881-83; Vice-Consul
for Russia in San
Francisco, Calif., 1892-1903; president of a San Francisco streetcar
line.
Died, in Adler Sanatorium,
San
Francisco, Calif., August
29, 1910 (age about 58
years).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Bill Prady (b. 1960) —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., June 7,
1960.
Democrat. Writer and
producer for television
sitcoms, including Dharma & Gregg and Good Morning
Miami; 1990 Emmy Award nominee; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Still living as of 2003.
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Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (1911-1993) —
also known as Vincent Price —
Born in St.
Louis, Mo., May 27,
1911.
Democrat. Actor; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Member, Alpha
Sigma Phi.
Died, from lung
cancer and emphysema,
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
25, 1993 (age 82 years, 151
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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Relatives: Son
of Vincent Leonard Price, Sr. and Marguerite Cobb (Wilcox) Price;
married, April
23, 1938, to Edith Barrett; married, August
25, 1949, to Mary Grant; married, October
24, 1974, to Coral Browne. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) —
also known as Ronald Reagan; "Dutch";
"The Gipper"; "The Great
Communicator"; "The Teflon President";
"Rawhide" —
of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Tampico, Whiteside
County, Ill., February
6, 1911.
Republican. Worked as a sports
broadcaster
in Iowa in the 1930s, doing local radio broadcast
of Chicago Cubs baseball
games; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; professional
actor in 1937-64; appeared in dozens of films including
Kings Row, Dark Victory, Santa Fe Trail,
Knute Rockne, All American, and The Winning Team; president of
the Screen Actors Guild, 1947-52, 1959-60; member of California
Republican State Central Committee, 1964-66; delegate to
Republican National Convention from California, 1964
(alternate), 1972
(delegation chair); Governor of
California, 1967-75; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1968,
1976;
candidate for Presidential Elector for California; President
of the United States, 1981-89; on March 30, 1981, outside the
Washington Hilton hotel, he and three others were shot
and wounded by John Hinkley, Jr.; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, 1993.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Screen
Actors Guild; Lions; American
Legion; Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
Died, from pneumonia
and Alzheimer's
disease, in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
2004 (age 93 years, 120
days).
Interment at Ronald
Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of John Reagan and Nellie (Wilson) Reagan; married, January
25, 1940, to Jane Wyman; married, March 4,
1952, to Nancy Davis (born 1923; actress) and Nancy
Davis (1921-2016); father of Maureen
Elizabeth Reagan. |
| | | Political family: Reagan
family of Bel Air and Simi Valley, California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Katherine
Hoffman Haley — Dana
Rohrabacher — Donald
T. Regan — Henry
Salvatori — L.
William Seidman — Christopher
Cox — Patrick
J. Buchanan — Bay
Buchanan — Edwin
Meese III |
| | | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
(opened 1941; renamed 1998), in Arlington,
Virginia, is named for
him. — Mount
Reagan (officially known as Mount Clay), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. — The Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade Center, in the Federal Triangle, Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Ronald Reagan: Ronald
Reagan : An American Life |
| | | Books about Ronald Reagan: Lou Cannon,
President
Reagan : The Role of a Lifetime — Lou Cannon, Governor
Reagan : His Rise to Power — Peter Schweizer, Reagan's
War : The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph
Over Communism — Lee Edwards, Ronald
Reagan: A Political Biography — Paul Kengor, God
and Ronald Reagan : A Spiritual Life — Mary Beth
Brown, Hand
of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald
Reagan — Edmund Morris, Dutch:
A Memoir of Ronald Reagan — Peggy Noonan, When
Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan — Peter
J. Wallison, Ronald
Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His
Presidency — Dinesh D'Souza, Ronald
Reagan : How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary
Leader — William F. Buckley, Jr., Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero — Craig Shirley, Reagan's
Revolution : The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It
All — Richard Reeves, President
Reagan : The Triumph of Imagination — Ron Reagan, My
Father at 100 — Newt & Callista Gingrich & David N.
Bossie, Ronald
Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny — William F. Buckley,
The
Reagan I Knew — Chris Matthews, Tip
and the Gipper: When Politics Worked |
| | | Critical books about Ronald Reagan:
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking
Through History: America in the Reagan Years — William
Kleinknecht, The
Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street
America |
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Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973) —
also known as Emanuel Goldenberg —
Born in Bucharest, Romania,
December
12, 1893.
Democrat. Actor; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Jewish.
Romanian
ancestry.
Died, from bladder
cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
26, 1973 (age 79 years, 45
days).
Entombed at Beth
El Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, N.Y.
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Mary Pickford Rogers (1892-1979) —
also known as Gladys Louise Smith; Mary Pickford;
"America's Sweetheart"; "Little
Mary"; "Blondilocks" —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Toronto, Ontario,
April
8, 1892.
Republican. Professional actress in 1908-33; appeared in more
than 250 films; co-founder (with Douglas Fairbanks, D. W.
Griffith, and Charlie Chaplin), United Artists motion picture
company; also co-founder of Motion Picture Academy; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California.
Female.
English
and Irish
ancestry.
Died, of a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Santa Monica Hospital,
Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 29,
1979 (age 87 years, 51
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Relatives:
Daughter of John Charles Smith and Charlotte (Hennessy) Smith;
married, January
7, 1911, to Owen Moore; married, March
28, 1920, to Douglas Fairbanks; married, June 26,
1937, to Charles 'Buddy' Rogers. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Mary Pickford: Kevin
Brownlow, Mary
Pickford Rediscovered — Eileen Whitfield, Pickford:
The Woman Who Made Hollywood |
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Angelo Salvatore Rossitto (1908-1991) —
also known as Angie Rossitto; "Little Mo";
"Angelino" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Omaha, Douglas
County, Neb., February
18, 1908.
Operated a newspaper
stand in Hollywood; film actor active for sixty years;
candidate in primary for mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1941.
Italian
ancestry.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
21, 1991 (age 83 years, 215
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Isadore Schary (1905-1980) —
also known as Dore Schary —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., August
31, 1905.
Democrat. Actor, playwright,
screenwriter,
movie producer; replaced Louis
B. Mayer as head of M-G-M Studios in 1951; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1956.
Jewish.
Member, B'nai
B'rith.
Died July 7,
1980 (age 74 years, 311
days).
Interment at Hebrew
Cemetery, West Long Branch, N.J.
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (b. 1947) —
also known as Arnold Schwarzenegger; "Arnie";
"Conan the Republican"; "The
Governator"; "The Austrian Oak" —
of Brentwood, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Thal, Styria, Austria,
July
30, 1947.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; actor in numerous
movies, including Pumping Iron, the Terminator series,
Conan the Barbarian, Predator, Total Recall, and
others; Governor of
California, 2003-; he and his wife separated
in 2011 after revealing that his sexual
contact with a member of his household staff resulted in a child
ten years earlier.
Catholic.
Austrian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Relatives: Son
of Gustav Schwarzenegger and Aurelia (Jadrny) Schwarzenegger;
married, April
26, 1986, to Maria Owings Shriver (daughter of Robert
Sargent Shriver Jr.; sister of Mark
Kennedy Shriver; niece of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy). |
| | | Political family: Kennedy
family. |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books by Arnold Schwarzenegger: Arnold
: The Education of a Bodybuilder (1977) — Total
Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story (2012) |
| | | Books about Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Nigel Andrews, True
Myths : The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Pumping
Iron to Governor of California — Susan Zannos, Arnold
Schwarzenegger — Laurence Leamer, Fantastic
: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger — Michael Blitz &
Louise Krasniewicz, Why
Arnold Matters: The Rise of a Cultural Icon — Ian
Halperin, The
Governator: From Muscle Beach to His Quest for the White House, the
Improbable Rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger — Colleen A.
Sexton, Arnold
Schwarzenegger (for young readers) |
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David Oliver Selznick (1902-1965) —
also known as David O. Selznick; Oliver
Jeffries —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., May 10,
1902.
Republican. Movie producer and Hollywood studio head;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1944.
Jewish.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 22,
1965 (age 63 years, 43
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Ally Sheedy (b. 1962) —
also known as Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy —
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 13,
1962.
Democrat. Actress; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988.
Female.
Jewish,
Irish,
and German
ancestry.
Still living as of 2022.
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Norton Winfred Simon (1907-1993) —
also known as Norton Simon; Norton
Glickman —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore., February
5, 1907.
Republican. President, Val Vita Food
Products, 1931-42; subsequently president and chairman of Hunt Foods;
director, Wheeling Steel
Corporation, Northern Pacific Railway,
and McCall's Publishing
Co.; art collector; candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1970.
Jewish.
Died in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 1,
1993 (age 86 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) —
also known as Francis Albert Sinatra; "Ol' Blue
Eyes"; "Chairman of the Board";
"The Voice";
"Swoonatra" —
Born in Hoboken, Hudson
County, N.J., December
12, 1915.
Democrat. Singer;
actor; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Catholic.
Italian
ancestry.
Died, following a heart
attack, in Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 14,
1998 (age 82 years, 153
days).
Interment at Desert
Memorial Park, Cathedral City, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Antonio Martino Sinatra and Natalina 'Dolly' (Garavente) Sinatra;
married, February
4, 1939, to Nancy Barbato; married, November
7, 1951, to Ava Gardner; married, July 19,
1966, to Mia Farrow; married, July 11,
1976, to Barbara (Blakeley) Marx. |
| | | Epitaph: "The best is yet to
come." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith (1898-1976) —
also known as Gerald L. K. Smith —
of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Eureka Springs, Carroll
County, Ark.
Born in Pardeeville, Columbia
County, Wis., February
27, 1898.
Pastor;
orator; political administrator and organizer for Huey P.
Long, 1934-35; as a white
supremacist, he joined and organized for William
Dudley Pelley's Silver Shirts of America, an organization modeled
directly on Adolf Hitler's Brownshirts; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1942 (Republican primary), 1942; founder
of the America First party; charged
with sedition
in 1944, as part of an alleged Nazi
conspiracy; tried
along with many others, but after seven months, a mistrial was
declared; America First candidate for President
of the United States, 1944; founder of the Christian Nationalist
Crusade; advocated deportation from the U.S. of Jews and
African-Americans.
Disciples
of Christ.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
15, 1976 (age 78 years, 48
days).
Interment at Christ
of the Ozarks Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Ark.
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Jan Sterling (1921-2004) —
also known as Jane Sterling Adriance —
Born in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1921.
Democrat. Actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Died, following a series of strokes,
while suffering from diabetes,
in the Motion Picture and Television Hospital,
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., March
26, 2004 (age 82 years, 358
days).
Interment at St. Pauls Churchyard, Covent Garden, London, England.
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Inger Stevens (1934-1970) —
also known as Inger Stensland; "Kay
Palmer" —
Born in Stockholm, Sweden,
October
18, 1934.
Democrat. Actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Swedish
ancestry.
Died, from acute
barbiturate poisoning, (later ruled to be suicide),
in the ambulance
on the way to the hospital, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April
30, 1970 (age 35 years, 194
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean.
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James Maitland Stewart (1908-1997) —
also known as Jimmy Stewart —
Born in Indiana, Indiana
County, Pa., May 20,
1908.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; one of
America's most famous film actors; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Moose.
Recipient, Medal
of Freedom, 1985.
Died, from pulmonary
embolism and cardiac
arrest, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 2,
1997 (age 89 years, 43
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Marlo Thomas (b. 1937) —
also known as Margaret Julia Thomas —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Deerfield, Lenawee
County, Mich., November
21, 1937.
Democrat. Actress in television shows and movies; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1972.
Female.
Catholic.
Lebanese
and Italian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II (1889-1943) —
also known as W. S. Van Dyke; "One-Take
Woody" —
of West Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., March
21, 1889.
Democrat. Child actor in vaudeville; director of dozens
of movies, 1917-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1940.
Christian
Scientist. Member, Society
of Colonial Wars.
Ill with cancer,
he died by suicide,
in Brentwood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
5, 1943 (age 53 years, 321
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. (1925-2012) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy;
Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1960; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist.
Bisexual.
Novelist,
playwright,
essayist,
screenwriter,
appeared as an actor in several films. Not actually related
to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Died, from complications of pneumonia,
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 31,
2012 (age 86 years, 302
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Van Vo (b. 1950) —
of Garden Grove, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in 1950.
Republican. Radio
producer; talk show host; candidate for Governor of
California, 2003.
Vietnamese
ancestry.
Still living as of 2003.
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Ralph Waite (b. 1928) —
of California.
Born in White Plains, Westchester
County, N.Y., June 22,
1928.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from California, 1990 (37th District), 1998 (44th
District), 1998 (44th District).
Professional actor, best known for his role as the father in
the 1972-81 television series "The Waltons"; also
appeared in movies such as Cool Hand Luke and Five
Easy Pieces.
Still living as of 2014.
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Noble Willingham (1931-2004) —
Born in Mineola, Wood
County, Tex., August
31, 1931.
Republican. Television and film actor; appeared in more than
30 movies; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 1st District, 2000.
Died in Palm Springs, Riverside
County, Calif., January
17, 2004 (age 72 years, 139
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Riverside
National Cemetery, Riverside, Calif.
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Shelley Winters (1920-2006) —
also known as Shirley Schrift —
Born in East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill., August
18, 1920.
Democrat. Actress; honored guest, Democratic National Convention,
1960.
Female.
Jewish.
Austrian
ancestry.
Died, following a heart
attack, in the Rehabilitation
Centre of Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
14, 2006 (age 85 years, 149
days).
Interment at Hillside
Memorial Park, Culver City, Calif.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Jonas Schrift and Rose (Winter) Schrift; married, January
1, 1942, to Mack Paul Mayer; married, April
28, 1952, to Vittorio Gassman; married, January
14, 2006, to Gerry DeFord; married, May 4,
1957, to Anthony
Franciosa. |
| | | Epitaph: "Beloved mother, grandmother,
and actress." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Samuel William Yorty (1909-1998) —
also known as Samuel W. Yorty; Sam Yorty;
"Traveling Sam" —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Lincoln, Lancaster
County, Neb., October
1, 1909.
Democrat. Member of California
state assembly, 1936, 1948; Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1940 (primary), 1954; served in the U.S.
Army Air Force in World War II; U.S.
Representative from California, 1951-55 (14th District 1951-53,
26th District 1953-55); mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1961-73; defeated, 1945, 1973, 1981;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1972;
talk show host.
Died of pneumonia,
following a stroke,
in Studio City, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 5,
1998 (age 88 years, 247
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Richard Darryl Zanuck (1934-2012) —
also known as Richard D. Zanuck —
of Santa Monica, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
13, 1934.
Republican. Movie producer; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1972.
Died in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 13,
2012 (age 77 years, 213
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Ziegler (b. 1967) —
of Burbank, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Heidelberg, Germany,
March
28, 1967.
Republican. Author; radio
commentator; filmmaker; alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 2008.
Agnostic.
Still living as of 2014.
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