If you think L.A.’s studios, supermarkets, and freeways are stacked with Hollywood stars, you should see its cemeteries.
Paris’ Père Lachaise may possess the graves of Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Chopin, and a fat Jim Morrison. Buenos Aires’ Cementerio de la Recoleta might count the eternal resting places of Eva Peron, Luis Ángel Firpo, and Victoria Ocampo.
But L.A. has Mel Blanc, Iceberg Slim, Rodney Dangerfield, and Rasputin’s daughter. So clearly, we win.
For every well-trodden resting burial site of, say, a DeeDee Ramone (Hollywood Forever), Walt Disney (Forest Lawn), Charles Bukowski (Palos Verdes Estates), or Marilyn Monroe (Pierce Brothers in Westwood), L.A. remains filled with the less visited, lesser-known graves of historical footnotes, cult favorite performers, serial killers, and underground authors.
Join us now as we look at six people you might not have known were buried in Los Angeles. And where to find them.