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Hollywood Forever Cemetery Has Been a California Landmark for More Than a Century

Founded in 1899, Hollywood Forever National Cemetery in Los Angeles is the resting place for hundreds of Hollywood’s greatest luminaries. The cemetery has restored to its original splendor, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A Los Angeles institution that draws visitors from all over the world, Hollywood Forever is an active cemetery and funeral home serving the needs of our community and surrounding city.

The cemetery offers over fifty acres of peaceful green space for visitors and families. With thousands of outdoor burial and cremation spaces available, new mausoleum construction nearing completion, and a vibrant cultural events program, Hollywood Forever Cemetery is more active today than ever before.

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The cemetery serves a multitude of cultures and honors a diversity of traditions. All faiths and traditions, new and old, are welcome. Beth Olam (House of Eternity) is a separate Jewish burial ground within the cemetery. We also have a cremation and stupa garden for our Buddhist families. Hollywood Forever was one of the first cemeteries in the nation to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos and our celebration has become a treasured Los Angeles tradition.

The history and beauty of our cemetery grounds will provide a sense of comfort to you today, and to your loved ones for generations to come.

Los Angeles Convenience and Centrality

In the heart of Hollywood, adjacent to Paramount Studios on our Southern boundary, Hollywood Forever offers the convenience of a funeral home chapel, crematory, and cemetery located all within our grounds. We also have a full-service Flower Shop and historic reception facilities in our Eastern Star Room. We work with other funeral homes, churches, temples and other venues to coordinate off-site funeral services and memorials. 

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Cemetery and Burial Options

Hollywood Forever offers a wide range of burial places and memorialization options. 

Traditional Burial

We offer a wide selection of traditional burial spaces throughout our park-like grounds. Our beautiful lakes, reflecting pools, and forested lawns offer a variety of scenic spots to select from. Many areas have a view of the Hollywood sign in the distance. Each grave space at Hollywood is considered a double interment space and can accommodate up to two burials. Family members may also purchase additional interment rights for cremation burials on existing family graves. 

Private Mausoleum

The grounds of Hollywood Forever are dotted with granite private family mausoleums. With our masons and stone resources, we can help you design a private building for your final resting place that matches your aesthetics with burial crypts and cremation niches to serve generations of your family.

Community Mausoleum

Hollywood Forever has many historic mausoleum buildings as well as an ongoing construction program to create 25,000 new crypt spaces over the next 15 years in our five-story mausoleum with views of downtown and the Hollywood Hills. Mausoleum crypts are our most affordable traditional burial option.

Green Burial and Natural Burial

We are pleased to offer an environmentally friendly, or Green burial, at Hollywood Forever.  Hollywood Forever is proud to be certified as a Hybrid Cemetery by the Green Burial Council.   Green Burial is for those wishing to be buried naturally with no embalming in a burial shroud or a simple pine, wicker, or other natural biodegradable casket.  Also, vaults are not used.  Instead, the burial soil is mounded and gradually recedes over time.  As part of the service, attendees are encouraged to participate in the burial process.  Memorial options include a newly planted tree, a succulent planting, and an inscribed natural bolder 

For those wishing to have a green burial in a conservation landscape, we can arrange for transfers to our sister cemetery in Marin County, Fernwood Cemetery. 

Fernwood Cemetery is one of the first green burial grounds of its kind in the United States and continues to pioneer green and conservation burial techniques and emerging traditions. Fernwood also includes Gan Yarok, America’s first green Jewish cemetery.

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Cremation Options

Hollywood Forever offers a variety of cremation services and cremation options.

Indoor Glass Fronted Cremation Niches

Our indoor mausoleums also feature glass-fronted cremation niches that allow for the display of cremation urns, photographs, and other mementos.

Outdoor Stone Fronted Niches

We have many beautiful stone-fronted cremation niches adjacent to our reflection pools, fountains, and historic architectural exteriors. Many niches accommodate multiple cremated remains (“ashes”). 

Cremation Scattering

Cremated remains (“ashes”) may also be scattered in our Rose Garden with memorial plaques available at the garden’s edge. We can also arrange for cremated remains (“ashes”) to be scattered at sea with one of our trusted providers, with or without an accompanying memorial service at sea.

Ground Burial for Cremation

Smaller ground burial spaces may be selected throughout our lawns and gardens for the interment of cremation urns within vaults. Memorials may include benches, stones, upright monuments, and even tree plantings.

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Freedom to Express

Unlike lawn park cemeteries that permit only flat markers, Hollywood Forever encourages creativity and expression. One-of-a-kind monuments, statuaries, headstones and structures in a variety of artistic and architectural styles fill the landscape of our park-like cemetery. Our in-house studio of stonemasons will work with you to create a custom memorial reflective of the life it is to honor. 

Advance Planning

Many of our clients pre plan, opting to select and purchase their burial spaces, crypts, or cremation niches in advance of need. We offer affordable monthly payment plans for options purchased beforehand. By making these purchases in advance, you can be assured to receive precisely what you wish, while sparing your loved ones from the expense and guesswork of having to make these decisions for you.

On-Site Flower Shop

Our flower shop, conveniently located in the Bell Tower at our front gates, always has a selection of fresh, seasonal cut flowers, potted plants, and our own homegrown succulents. Our designers are available to arrange and place floral tributes for memorials and grave sites.

Cemetery Visitors

Hollywood Forever welcomes visitors from dawn to dusk every day, 7 days a week (Beth Olam burial sites, buildings, and gates are closed on Saturdays).

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Cemetery Pricing

Double-depth lawn spaces from $27,500

Single crypts from $8,800
Companion crypts from $20,900

Single cremation niches from $5,500
Companion cremation niches from $8,250

Cremation plots from $16,750

Tree Planting and Bio Urn, please inquire.

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We are committed to working within your budget to provide a meaningful celebration of life for your loved one. Please know that Hollywood Forever offers financing options.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I purchase a casket from another vendor?

Yes, you may purchase a casket elsewhere. However, some package discounts are available only to those who purchase a casket from our funeral home.

Does pre-arranging save money?

Yes, pre-arrangement buffers the effect of inflation by freezing most of the costs at today’s prices. Also, making calm and deliberate decisions ahead of time is a more prudent path than leaving considerable financial obligations for overwhelmed and emotional survivors at the time of someone’s passing.

Do your packages include picking up my loved one?

Yes, our packages include bringing your loved one into our care from a local address. Transportation from somewhere outside our local area might incur additional charges.

What do I do when person dies? Who do I call?

Death can happen anywhere — at home, in a hospital, in a care facility, or at the scene of an accident.

If the decedent passes at home under hospice care, the family should call the hospice, which will dispatch a nurse to the residence. Once at the residence, the hospice nurse will evaluate the situation and call our funeral home. If the decedent is not under hospice care, the family must call 911. One of the police officers who responds to the call will contact the coroner’s office to determine if the coroner will be taking the decedent into their care. If the coroner elects not to do so, the family will be instructed to contact our funeral home.

If the death occurs at a hospital or care facility, a nurse from the facility will call our funeral home.

The family should be prepared to provide important information to our staff member who takes the call, like the decedent’s full name, date of birth, and date and time of death; the decedent’s approximate height and weight; the name, address and phone number of the facility where the decedent passed; and contact information for both the next of kin and for the doctor who will be asked to sign the death certificate.

Most hospitals require the next of kin to sign a form authorizing the release of the decedent into our care.

In the event the coroner does take the decedent into their custody, the family service counselor who meets with the family will ask the next of kin to sign a county form that will authorize the coroner to release the decedent into our care.

Do I have to pay for everything up front, or can I continue to make payments after the service until the balance is paid off?

If you make your arrangements in advance, we can offer a wide variety of payment plans and terms for funeral, cremation, and cemetery purchases.

Once someone has passed away, any existing balance must be settled before services will be rendered. If you would like to finance at-need arrangements, we would refer you to a third-party lender that works with families at the time of need.

How long can you keep the my loved one?

We can hold your loved one in our care for several weeks, if necessary. Please inform the family service counselor who meets with you of any special arrangements you might require.

What is embalming?

Embalming is the art and science of making a decedent more suitable for viewing by slowing the process of decomposition.

Can I call you anytime?

Yes, you can call us anytime, 24 hours a day, at (323) 469-1181.

Do you accept credit cards?

Yes, we accept all major credit cards.