1. Alma Beltran (August 22, 1919- June 9, 2007)
Beltran started her film career in Hollywood in the uncredited role of Miss Guatemala in the film Pan-Americana (1945) (1945). From 1945 to 2002, in addition to her film roles, Beltran played over 80 roles in film and television, often in smaller roles, always as Mexican women, and then later in her career, as family matriarch types or senoritas. These included guest roles in such popular TV series as The F.B.I. (1965), Bonanza (1959), Lou Grant (1977), Knight Rider (1982), The Bob Newhart Show, Cannon, Police Story, The A-Team (1983) and The Jeffersons (1975), among others. She is best known as Mrs. Fuentes, mother of Julio Fuentes, on the NBC-TV series Sanford and Son. On the big screen, in film, she appeared in such films as Jubilee Trail, Marathon Man (1976), Oh, God! Book II (1980), and most recently in Ghost (1990) which co-starred Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, and the 2002 comedy film Buying the Cow (2002). She died in Northridge, California in 2007, at age 87. Beltran is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
2. Russell “Lucky” Hayden (June 12, 1912- June 9, 1981)
He was best known for his portrayal as Lucky Jenkins in Paramount’s popular Hopalong Cassidy film series. Hayden’s screen debut was in Hills of Old Wyoming (1937), a Hopalong Cassidy film. In 27 films, he played Lucky Jenkins, one of a trio of heroes in the Cassidy westerns starring William Boyd, then co-starred with Charles Starrett in other westerns. In 1947, he played both the main hero and villain in the film Trail of the Mounties. In 1950, Hayden appeared as “Marshal #1” in several episodes of the live-broadcast and short-lived ABC series The Marshal of Gunsight Pass. In the 1952–1953 season, Hayden teamed with Jackie Coogan, a former child actor in the 39-episode syndicated series Cowboy G-Men. Hayden and fellow western actor Dick Curtis helped to develop Pioneertown, a western movie set near Palm Springs, which has been used in western films and television episodes.
Hayden was married from 1938 to 1943 to actress Jan Clayton, who was later cast as the first mother on the Lassie television series on CBS. The couple had a daughter, Sandra Hayden. In 1946 Hayden wed screen actress Lillian Porter, who retired from pictures. They remained together until his death in 1981, from pneumonia. Hayden is interred at Oakwood Cemetery in Chatsworth, CA.
3. Jackie Mason, born Yacov Moshe Maza (June 9, 1928 – July 24, 2021)
Mason was a stand-up comedian and film and television actor. He is ranked No. 63 on Comedy Central’s 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all-time. His 1986 one-man show The World According to Me won a Special Tony Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Ace Award, an Emmy Award, and a Grammy nomination. Later, his 1988 special Jackie Mason on Broadway won another Emmy Award (for outstanding writing) and another Ace Award, and his 1991 voice-over of Rabbi Hyman Krustofski in The Simpsons episode “Like Father, Like Clown” won Mason a third Emmy Award. He had written and performed in six one-man shows on Broadway. In 1961, the comic got a big break, an appearance on Steve Allen’s weekly television variety show. His success brought him to “The Ed Sullivan Show” and other programs. He was banned for two years from the “Sullivan” show when he allegedly gave the host the finger when Sullivan signaled to him to wrap up his act during an appearance on Oct. 18, 1964.
He had parts in films such as The Stoolie (1972), Steve Martin’s The Jerk (1979) and Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part I. Mason’s act even carried him to Broadway, where he put on several one-man shows, including “Freshly Squeezed” in 2005, and “Love Thy Neighbor” in 1996. Over the course of his career, Mason also penned a number of books including 1999 autobiography Jackie, Oy!, on which he collaborated with Ken Gross. He died on July 24, 2021 at age 93. Mason is buried at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York.
4. Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 – June 10, 1987)
Hartman was an actress, best known for her performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D’Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award. The next year, she appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s You’re a Big Boy Now (1966) as Barbara Darling, for which she was nominated for a second Golden Globe Award. On stage, she was best known for her interpretations of Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and Emily Webb in Our Town. By the late 1970s, Hartman’s career had begun to slow, and she quit acting in 1982 after finishing the voice role of Mrs. Brisby in Don Bluth’s animated film The Secret of NIMH (1982). Throughout much of her life, Hartman suffered from depression. In 1984, she divorced her husband, screenwriter Gill Dennis, after a five-year separation.
In the last few years of her life, she gave up acting altogether and worked at a museum in Pittsburgh while receiving treatment for her condition at an outpatient clinic. On June 10, 1987, Hartman committed suicide by jumping from the window of her fifth floor apartment. She is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Youngstown, Ohio.
5. George Chandler (June 30, 1898 – June 10, 1985)
He was an actor best known for playing the character of “Uncle Petrie Martin” on the CBS television series Lassie. Chandler also served in the United States Army during World War I. Early in his career, he had a vaudeville act, billed as “George Chandler, the Musical Nut,” which featured comedy and his violin. Chandler appeared six times in Bill Williams’s western series The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1955) in episodes titled “Law of Boot Hill”, “Lost Treasure of the Panamints”, “Trails Westward”, “The Wrong Man”, “Trail to Bordertown”, and “Gunsmoke Justice”. He guest starred on the Reed Hadley CBS legal drama The Public Defender. He appeared as the character Ames in the two-part episode “King of the Dakotas” in the 1955 NBC western anthology series Frontier. In 1954–1955, he was cast in two episodes of the NBC sitcom It’s a Great Life. He appeared in the 1956 episode “Joey and the Stranger” of the NBC children’s western series, Fury. He was cast as Clay Hunnicutt in the 1957 episode “The Giveaway” of Jackie Cooper’s NBC sitcom, The People’s Choice. In 1960, Chandler was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. Chandler died in Panorama City, California of cancer, on June 10, 1985, at the age of 86. He is interred at Forest Lawn-Glendale.
6. Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles. 
Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called “Brother Ray.” He was often referred to as “The Genius.” Charles was blind from the age of seven. He pioneered the genre of soul music during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records. He also contributed to the integration of country music, rhythm and blues and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his two Modern Sounds albums. While he was with ABC, Charles became one of the first black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company. Ray Charles won nine of his 12 Grammy Awards between 1960 and 1966, including the best R&B recording three consecutive years (“Hit the Road Jack,” “I Can’t Stop Loving You” and “Busted”). His versions of other songs are also well known, including “Makin’ Whoopee” and a stirring “America the Beautiful.” Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell wrote “Georgia on My Mind” in 1931 but it didn’t become Georgia’s official state song until 1979, long after Ray Charles turned it into an American standard. Their friendship lasted until the end of Charles’s life.
In 2003, Charles had successful hip replacement surgery and was planning to go back on tour, until he began suffering from other ailments. He died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on June 10, 2004, surrounded by family and friends, as a result of acute liver disease. He is interred at Inglewood Memorial Park in Inglewood, CA.
7. Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967)
Respected for his natural style and versatility, Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age. In a screen career that spanned 37 years, he was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor and won two, sharing the record for nominations in that category with Laurence Olivier. During his career, Tracy appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen’s greatest actors. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as one of the top ten Hollywood legends. He was also known for his relationship with Katharine Hepburn, and the several films they co-starred in. Despite his marriage, Tracy and Hepburn remained devoted to each other until his death in 1967. He died of a heart attack that June, after years of illness, and is interred at Forest Lawn-Glendale.
8. Michael Rennie, born Eric Alexander Rennie (August 25, 1909 – June 10, 1971)
He had leading roles in a number of Hollywood films, including his portrayal of the space visitor Klaatu in the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). In a career spanning more than 30 years, Rennie appeared in more than 50 films and in several American television series. Rennie was born in Idle near Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, the second son of a Scottish wool mill owner, James Rennie, and his English wife Amelia. His first screen acting was an uncredited bit part in the Alfred Hitchcock film Secret Agent (1936), standing in for Robert Young. Shortly after the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939, Rennie began to receive offers for larger film roles, including This Man Is Dangerous (1940), Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and Pimpernel Smith (1941). He had his first big film role in the suspense drama Tower of Terror (1941). Rennie enlisted in the RAF Volunteer Reserve in May 1941. When the war ended in 1945, he returned to films, and achieved notice for his role of Bob Fielding in I’ll be Your Sweetheart (1945).
Rennie frequently played a supporting role in British films, but in 1951, Darrel Zanuck of 20th Century Fox brought him to Hollywood, and cast him as Klaatu, in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), now considered a science-fiction classic. Rennie supported Tyrone Power in King of the Khyber Rifles (1954), as a brigadier in British India, then he played his first villain for Fox, an evil Khan in the “eastern”, Princess of the Nile (1954), opposite Jeffrey Hunter. He reprised his role as Peter in Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) and was lent out for Mambo (1954). He later obtained the lead role of Harry Lime in the British television series “The Third Man”, but later offers went back to supporting roles. He also appeared in a number of guest spots on American television shows, including Zane Grey Theater, Route 66, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Perry Mason, The Virginian, Wagon Train, and Lost in Space
He was married twice, first to Joan Phyllis England (1938-1945; divorced), then to Margaret “Maggie” McGrath (1947-1960; divorced). He and Maggie had a son, David, born in 1953. Within three years of leaving Hollywood, he journeyed to his mother’s home in Harrogate, Yorkshire. It was there that he died on June 10, 1971. He is buried in Harlow Hill Cemetery in Harrogate. His death was attributed to natural causes. Rennie was 61 years old.
9. Jennifer Helene Maxwell (September 3, 1941 – June 10, 1981)
Vincente Minnelli saw Maxwell when she was 16 years old and a high school student in Brooklyn. He had her do a screen test to possibly portray Frank Sinatra’s niece in Some Came Running. Maxwell played spoiled Ellie Corbett in Blue Hawaii (1961), alongside Elvis Presley. She also appeared in Blue Denim (1959), Take Her, She’s Mine (1963), and Shotgun Wedding (1963). In addition to this she appeared in several television shows, including Father Knows Best (1959), The Twilight Zone (1961), Route 66 (1961), The Joey Bishop Show (1962), 77 Sunset Strip (1963) and My Three Sons (1967). She was married twice, and had one son from her first marriage. Maxwell and her second husband Ervin Roeder were shot and killed in the lobby of Maxwell’s Beverly Hills condo during what was reported at the time as being a botched robbery. She was 39 years old.
10. Judy Garland, born Frances Ethel Gumm (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)
She was renowned for her contralto vocals and attained international stardom that continued throughout a career spanning more than 40 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on concert stages. Garland began performing in vaudeville with her two older sisters and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There, she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and her most iconic role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Other notable credits at MGM included Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Harvey Girls (1946) and Easter Parade (1948). After 15 years, she was released from the studio and then gained new success through record-breaking concert appearances, a successful recording career, and her own Emmy nominated television series. Film appearances became fewer in her later years, but included two Academy Award nominated performances in A Star Is Born (1954) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). 
Respected for her versatility, she received a Golden Globe Award. a Juvenile Academy Award, a Special Tony Award, and at 39 years of age she remains the youngest recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the motion picture industry. She was the first woman to win a Grammy for Album of the Year for her live recording of Judy at Carnegie Hall. Despite her professional triumphs, Garland struggled immensely in her personal life, starting when she was a child. Her self-image was strongly influenced by film executives, who said she was unattractive and constantly manipulated her on-screen physical appearance. She was plagued by financial instability, often owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes.
She married five times, with her first four marriages ending in divorce. She also had a long battle with drugs and alcohol, which ultimately led to her death from a barbiturate overdose at the age of 47. Judy Garland is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
