Westchester Hills Cemetery

The Westchester Hills Cemetery is at 400 Saw Mill River Road in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, approximately north of New York City. It is a Jewish cemetery, and many well-known entertainers and performers are interred there. It was founded in 1919 when the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue acquired the northern portion of the Mount Hope Cemetery.

Notable interments

• Barricini family, boxed candy makers
• Charles E. Bloch (1927–2006), President Bloch Publishing Company
• Barbara Bradford (1933–2024), novelist
• Mischa Elman (1891–1967), violinist
• I. J. Fox (1888–1947), notable furrier
• Joyce Pinn Fox (1931–2020), banking executive
• Captain George Fried (1877–1949), won Navy Cross for rescue of ships Antinoe, and Florida
• Stanley P. Friedman (1925–2006), writer
• John Garfield (1913–1952), actor
• George Gershwin (1898–1937), composer
• Ira Gershwin (1896–1983), lyricist
• Jonah Goldman (1906–1980), baseball player
• Ben Grauer (1908–1977), television and radio personality
• Guggenheim family, founders of the Guggenheim Museum
• Sidney Hillman (1887–1946), first president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
• Judy Holliday (1921–1965), actress
• Allyn King (1899–1930), Broadway actress and former Ziegfeld Follies performer
• Richard Lindner (1901–1976), German-American painter
• Lucille Lortel (1900–1999), actress and producer
• Arnold Newman (1918–2006), photographer
• Roberta Peters (1930–2017), opera singer
• Tony Randall (1920–2004), actor
• Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), producer and director
• Billy Rose (1899–1966), Broadway producer
• A. M. Rosenthal (1922–2006), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
• Robert Rossen (1908–1966), motion picture director and screenwriter
• Ron Silver (1946–2009), American actor, director, and producer
• Lee Strasberg (1901–1982), actor-teacher
• Paula Strasberg (1909–1966), actress-teacher
• Irving Sturm (1932–2010), founder of Iridium Jazz Club and Ellen's Stardust Diner
• Maxine Sullivan (1911–1987), American jazz vocalist and performer
• David Susskind (1920–1987), Emmy award-winning producer
• Laurence Tisch (1923–2003), head of CBS and co-founder of Loews, brother of Preston
• Preston Robert Tisch (1926–2005), financier and business magnate, brother of Laurence
• Rabbi Stephen Wise (1874–1949), religious leader
• Louise Waterman Wise (1874–1947), social worker and artist, wife of Stephen Wise
• Alexandra Pregel (1907–1984), Russian-American artist
• Boris Pregel (1893–1976), scientist-physicist

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