The book Celebrities In Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory is the fourth and final book I bought recently during my book buying escapade… Written in 2001 by Allan R. Ellenberger the book has 250 pages… Featuring over 26 cemeteries in and around the Los Angeles area the author Ellenberger lists practically anyone who had something or the other to do with the film industry in Hollywood.

Arranged by cemetery in alphabetical order. Each listing of celebrities in the book organized by cemetery they are buried in. Lists the celebrities age at death, date and place of birth and death, cause of death, headline of the celebrities obituary, inscription on grave marker, location of grave (very helpful bit of info), and a film the celebrity took part in.

One of the neat things about this book is that it has six appendix listings for things such as “miscellaneous and unusual grave sites” which includes odd places where they were buried, “sea burials, cremation, and donations to science” which includes celebrities buried at sea or were cremated, “beyond Los Angeles” which includes celebrities buried in other parts of California, “LA cemetery Addresses” which includes the addresses of the cemeteries listed in the book, “websites” which includes useful website addresses to sites featuring celebrity grave sites or celebrity death, & “bibliography” which includes books used in the research and writing of this book.

This book is a very complete index of who’s who in Hollywood. I managed to get a used former library edition off Amazon which I might add came in excellent condition and appears to have hardly been read.

The only downside of this book… Which seems to be common in these index style books such as the book I have on Hollywood Forever Cemetery by Tony Scott is that it does not have any photos… But none the less the wealth of information packed into this small book is well worth obtaining your own copy. Unfortunately the book is out of print but you will find some decent prices for used copies if you surf over to your favorite used book website such as Abebooks, or Alibris.