The Westchester Hills Cemetery is at 400 Saw Mill River Road in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Jewish cemetery, and many well-known entertainers and performers are interred there. It was founded by the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in 1919 when the synagogue acquired the northern portion of the Mount Hope Cemetery.
Notable interments
Barricini family, boxed candy makers
Harry Belafonte (1927-2023), Calypso singer and civil rights activist
Charles E. Bloch (1927–2006), President Bloch Publishing Company
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
References
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1919 establishments in New York (state) Cemeteries in Westchester County, New York Jewish cemeteries in New York (state)