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Beverly Hills, CA

CITY

Official Website:
http://www.beverlyhills.org/

Population:
33784 (2000 census)

Founding Date:
1828 (settled), 1906 (platted), 1914 (incorporated)

County:
Los Angeles County

SCHOOLS

SchoolFounded
Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, CA
1927

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

CompanyFounded
Live Nation
2005
City National
1954
Hilton Hotels
1919

BIRTHS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Eric Audé
Actor
5-Apr-1980   Dude Where's My Car?
John Drew Barrymore
Actor
4-Jun-1932 29-Nov-2004 High School Confidential!
Candice Bergen
Actor
9-May-1946   Murphy Brown
Albert Brooks
Actor
22-Jul-1947   Broadcast News
Beau Garrett
Actor
28-Dec-1982   Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
Tim Holt
Actor
5-Feb-1918 15-Feb-1973 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Paris Jackson
Relative
3-Apr-1998   Daughter of Michael Jackson
Logan Lerman
Actor
19-Jan-1992   Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Matthew Vaughn
Film Director
7-Mar-1971   Layer Cake
Jacqueline White
Actor
23-Nov-1922   The Narrow Margin
Jack Wrangler
Pornstar
11-Jul-1946 7-Apr-2009 Eyes of a Gay Stranger

DEATHS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Nick Adams
Actor
10-Jul-1931 7-Feb-1968 Johnny Yuma on The Rebel
Charles Aidman
Actor
21-Jan-1925 7-Nov-1993 Character actor
Gracie Allen
Actor
26-Jul-1895 27-Aug-1964 Say goodnight Gracie
Pier Angeli
Actor
19-Jun-1932 10-Sep-1971 Tomorrow Is Too Late
Ken Annakin
Film Director
10-Aug-1914 22-Apr-2009 Battle of the Bulge
George Archainbaud
Film Director
7-May-1890 20-Feb-1959 Thirteen Women
Alexis Arquette
Actor
28-Jul-1969 11-Sep-2016 Last Exit to Brooklyn
Malcolm Atterbury
Actor
20-Feb-1907 16-Aug-1992 Vaudevillian, character actor
Ross Bagdasarian
Musician
27-Jan-1919 16-Jun-1972 Progenitor of Alvin and the Chipmunks
Binnie Barnes
Actor
25-May-1903 27-Jul-1998 The Private Life of Henry VIII
Dave Barry
Comic
26-Aug-1918 16-Aug-2001 Borscht Belt comic
Ethel Barrymore
Actor
15-Aug-1879 18-Jun-1959 None But the Lonely Heart
Warner Baxter
Actor
29-Mar-1889 7-May-1951 In Old Arizona
Noah Beery, Sr.
Actor
17-Jan-1882 1-Apr-1946 The Mark of Zorro
Wallace Beery
Actor
1-Apr-1885 15-Apr-1949 Grand Hotel
Jack Benny
Actor
14-Feb-1894 26-Dec-1974 The Jack Benny Show
Pandro S. Berman
Film/TV Producer
28-Mar-1905 13-Jul-1996 Top RKO producer, Ivanhoe
Charles Brackett
Screenwriter
26-Nov-1892 9-Mar-1969 Billy Wilder's collaborator
Fanny Brice
Singer
29-Oct-1891 29-May-1951 The Baby Snooks Show
Albert R. Broccoli
Film/TV Producer
5-Apr-1909 27-Jun-1996 Producer of James Bond films
Helen Broderick
Actor
11-Aug-1891 25-Sep-1959 Top Hat
Richard Brooks
Film Director
18-May-1912 11-Mar-1992 In Cold Blood
Pat Brown
Politician
21-Apr-1905 16-Feb-1996 Governor of California, 1959-67
George Burns
Comic
20-Jan-1896 9-Mar-1996 Oh, God!
Eddie Cantor
Singer
31-Jan-1892 10-Oct-1964 Banjo Eyes
Macdonald Carey
Actor
15-Mar-1913 21-Mar-1994 Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives
Jack Carter
Comic
24-Jun-1923 28-Jun-2015 Stand-up comic, actor
Nell Carter
Actor
13-Sep-1948 23-Jan-2003 Housekeeper on Gimme A Break
Joseph Cawthorn
Actor
29-Mar-1868 21-Jan-1949 White Zombie
Ray Charles
Musician
23-Sep-1930 10-Jun-2004 Georgia On My Mind
Rosemary Clooney
Singer
23-May-1928 29-Jun-2002 Come On-a My House
Walter Connolly
Actor
8-Apr-1887 28-May-1940 It Happened One Night
Gary Cooper
Actor
7-May-1901 14-May-1961 High Noon
Helmut Dantine
Actor
7-Oct-1917 2-May-1982 Edge of Darkness
Marvin Davis
Business
31-Aug-1925 25-Sep-2004 Oil magnate, former owner of 20th Century Fox
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Singer
8-Dec-1925 16-May-1990 Coolest hepcat in the Rat Pack
Dino De Laurentiis
Film/TV Producer
8-Aug-1919 11-Nov-2010 Prodigious film producer
Laura Devon
Actor
23-May-1931 19-Jul-2007 Red Line 7000
Claire Dodd
Actor
29-Dec-1908 23-Nov-1973 Footlight Parade
Joanne Dru
Actor
31-Jan-1922 10-Sep-1996 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Steffi Duna
Actor
8-Feb-1910 22-Apr-1992 Hungarian-American character actress
Stuart Erwin
Actor
14-Feb-1903 21-Dec-1967 The Stu Erwin Show
Peter Falk
Actor
16-Sep-1927 23-Jun-2011 Detective Columbo
John Farrow
Screenwriter
10-Feb-1904 28-Jan-1963 Around the World in Eighty Days
Louise Fazenda
Actor
17-Jun-1895 17-Apr-1962 The Old Maid
Rachel Field
Author
19-Sep-1894 15-Mar-1942 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Peter Finch
Actor
28-Sep-1916 14-Jan-1977 Network
Ella Fitzgerald
Singer
25-Apr-1917 15-Jun-1996 The First Lady of Jazz
Joe Flynn
Actor
8-Nov-1924 19-Jul-1974 Capt. Binghamton on McHale's Navy
Glenn Ford
Actor
1-May-1916 30-Aug-2006 Gilda, Blackboard Jungle
Sally Forrest
Actor
28-May-1928 15-Mar-2015 While the City Sleeps
Bruno Frank
Playwright
13-Jun-1878 20-Jun-1945 Storm in a Teacup
Mary Frann
Actor
27-Feb-1943 23-Sep-1998 Joanna Loudon on Newhart
Pauline Frederick
Actor
12-Aug-1883 19-Sep-1938 This Modern Age
Mona Freeman
Actor
9-Jun-1926 23-May-2014 Streets of Laredo
Larry Gelbart
Film/TV Producer
25-Feb-1928 11-Sep-2009 M*A*S*H
Ira Gershwin
Songwriter
6-Dec-1896 17-Aug-1983 They Can't Take That Away from Me
Jerry Goldsmith
Composer
10-Feb-1929 21-Jul-2004 Prominent soundtrack composer
Guy Green
Film Director
5-Nov-1913 15-Sep-2005 A Patch of Blue
Johnny Green
Composer
10-Oct-1908 15-May-1989 Body and Soul
Hank Greenberg
Baseball
1-Jan-1911 4-Sep-1986 Two-time American League MVP
Thurston Hall
Actor
10-May-1882 20-Feb-1958 Mr. Schuyler on Topper
E. Lynn Harris
Novelist
20-Jun-1955 23-Jul-2009 Invisible Life
George Harrison
Musician
25-Feb-1943 29-Nov-2001 Beatle
Rondo Hatton
Actor
22-Apr-1894 2-Feb-1946 Horror actor afflicted with acromegaly
William Randolph Hearst
Business
29-Apr-1863 14-Aug-1951 Newspaper magnate
Charlton Heston
Actor
4-Oct-1923 5-Apr-2008 The Ten Commandments
Connie Hines
Actor
24-Mar-1931 18-Dec-2009 Carol Post on Mister Ed
Rock Hudson
Actor
17-Nov-1925 2-Oct-1985 Ice Station Zebra
Barbara Hutton
Socialite
14-Nov-1912 11-May-1979 The Poor Little Rich Girl
Sam Jaffe
Actor
10-Mar-1891 24-Mar-1984 Gunga Din
Spike Jones
Musician
14-Dec-1911 1-May-1965 Cocktails for Two
Jim Jordan
Actor
16-Nov-1896 1-Apr-1988 Fibber McGee
Louis Jourdan
Actor
19-Jun-1919 14-Feb-2015 Kamal in Octopussy
Gus Kahn
Songwriter
6-Nov-1886 8-Oct-1941 Ain't We Got Fun?
Lee H. Katzin
Film Director
12-Apr-1935 30-Oct-2002 Le Mans
Gene Kelly
Actor
23-Aug-1912 2-Feb-1996 Singin' in the Rain
Paul Kelly
Actor
9-Aug-1899 6-Nov-1956 Flying Tigers
Doris Kenyon
Actor
5-Sep-1897 1-Sep-1979 Counsellor at Law
Kirk Kerkorian
Business
6-Jun-1917 15-Jun-2015 Las Vegas baron
Don Knotts
Actor
21-Jul-1924 24-Feb-2006 Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show
Sidney Korshak
Attorney
6-Jun-1907 20-Jan-1996 The Mob's man in Hollywood
Thomas H. Kuchel
Politician
15-Aug-1910 21-Nov-1994 US Senator from California, 1953-69
Fritz Lang
Film Director
5-Dec-1890 2-Aug-1976 Metropolis
Timothy Leary
Activist
22-Oct-1920 31-May-1996 Tune in, turn on, drop out
Anna Lee
Actor
2-Jan-1913 14-May-2004 Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital
Janet Leigh
Actor
6-Jul-1927 4-Oct-2004 Psycho
Robert Z. Leonard
Film Director
7-Oct-1889 27-Aug-1968 The Divorcee
Sheldon Leonard
Actor
22-Feb-1907 10-Jan-1997 Nick the Bartender
Mervyn LeRoy
Film Director
15-Oct-1900 13-Sep-1987 Quo Vadis?
Oscar Levant
Pianist
27-Dec-1906 14-Aug-1972 Panelist, Information Please
Harold Lloyd
Actor
20-Apr-1893 8-Mar-1971 Prolific silent film actor
Marjorie Lord
Actor
26-Jul-1918 28-Nov-2015 Make Room for Daddy
Montagu Love
Actor
15-Mar-1877 17-May-1943 British character actor
Harriet MacGibbon
Actor
5-Oct-1905 8-Feb-1987 Mrs. Drysdale on Beverly Hillbillies
Helen Mack
Actor
13-Nov-1913 13-Aug-1986 The Son of Kong
Louis Malle
Film Director
30-Oct-1932 23-Nov-1995 Atlantic City
Abby Mann
Screenwriter
1-Dec-1927 25-Mar-2008 Judgment at Nuremberg
Herbert Marshall
Actor
23-May-1890 22-Jan-1966 Foreign Correspondent
Dean Martin
Singer
7-Jun-1917 25-Dec-1995 Member of Rat Pack
Leslie H. Martinson
Film Director
16-Jan-1915 3-Sep-2016 Batman: The Movie
Marilyn Maxwell
Actor
3-Aug-1921 20-Mar-1972 Stand by for Action
Jimmy McHugh
Songwriter
10-Jul-1893 23-May-1969 On the Sunny Side of the Street
Rod McKuen
Poet
29-Apr-1933 27-Jan-2015 A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Stephen McNally
Actor
29-Jul-1913 4-Jun-1994 Winchester '73
Carmen McRae
Singer
8-Apr-1922 10-Nov-1994 Jazz vocalist
Audrey Meadows
Actor
8-Feb-1926 3-Feb-1996 Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners
Terry Melcher
Music Producer
8-Feb-1942 19-Nov-2004 Songwriter for Byrds, Beach Boys
Sue Mengers
Talent Agent
2-Sep-1932 15-Oct-2011 Represented Streisand, McQueen
Adolphe Menjou
Actor
18-Feb-1890 29-Oct-1963 A Farewell to Arms
Vincente Minnelli
Film Director
28-Feb-1903 25-Jul-1986 The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Carmen Miranda
Dancer
9-Feb-1909 5-Aug-1955 The lady in the tutti-frutti hat
Thomas Mitchell
Actor
11-Jul-1892 17-Dec-1962 Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
Marvin Mitchelson
Attorney
7-May-1928 18-Sep-2004 Celebrity divorce lawyer
Mary Ann Mobley
Model
17-Feb-1939 9-Dec-2014 Miss America 1959
Jimmy Monaco
Composer
13-Jan-1885 16-Oct-1945 You Made Me Love You
Owen Moore
Actor
12-Dec-1886 9-Jun-1939 Irish-American character actor
Antonio Moreno
Actor
26-Sep-1887 15-Feb-1967 Spanish-American character actor
Frank Morgan
Actor
1-Jun-1890 18-Sep-1949 The Wizard of Oz
Mary Murphy
Actor
26-Jan-1931 4-May-2011 The Wild One
Jan Murray
Comic
4-Oct-1916 2-Jul-2006 Borscht belt comedian, host of Treasure Hunt
Jack Narz
Game Show Host
13-Nov-1922 15-Oct-2008 Concentration
Robert Newton
Actor
1-Jun-1905 25-Mar-1956 Long John Silver
Hugh O'Brian
Actor
19-Apr-1925 5-Sep-2016 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
George Pal
Film Director
1-Feb-1908 2-May-1980 The Time Machine
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
10-Dec-1909 19-Sep-1990 Choreographer for Astaire and Rogers
Don Porter
Actor
24-Sep-1912 11-Feb-1997 Prof. Lawrence on Gidget
Eleanor Powell
Dancer
21-Nov-1912 11-Feb-1982 Lady Be Good
Sergei Rachmaninov
Composer
20-Mar-1873 28-Mar-1943 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Donna Reed
Actor
27-Jan-1921 14-Jan-1986 The Donna Reed Show
George Reeves
Actor
5-Jan-1914 16-Jun-1959 Television's first Superman
Jean Renoir
Film Director
15-Sep-1894 12-Feb-1979 La Grande Illusion
Stephen Roberts
Film Director
23-Nov-1895 17-Jul-1936 The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
May Robson
Actor
19-Apr-1858 20-Oct-1942 Lady for a Day
Rod La Rocque
Actor
20-Nov-1898 15-Oct-1969 Braveheart
Gilbert Roland
Actor
11-Dec-1905 15-May-1994 The Bad and the Beautiful
Stuart Rosenberg
Film Director
11-Aug-1927 15-Mar-2007 Cool Hand Luke
Rosalind Russell
Actor
4-Jun-1907 28-Nov-1976 Auntie Mame
Ann Rutherford
Actor
2-Nov-1917 11-Jun-2012 Andy Hardy's girlfriend Polly
Randolph Scott
Actor
23-Jan-1898 2-Mar-1987 Ride the High Country
George Seaton
Screenwriter
17-Apr-1911 28-Jul-1979 Miracle on 34th Street
William A. Seiter
Film Director
10-Jun-1890 26-Jul-1964 Allegheny Uprising
Dinah Shore
Singer
29-Feb-1916 24-Feb-1994 See the U-S-A in a Chev-ro-let
Andy Sidaris
Film Director
20-Feb-1931 7-Mar-2007 Hard Ticket to Hawaii
Bugsy Siegel
Criminal
28-Feb-1906 20-Jun-1947 Brought the mob to Las Vegas
C. Aubrey Smith
Actor
21-Jul-1863 20-Dec-1948 The Four Feathers
Elaine Stewart
Actor
31-May-1930 27-Jun-2011 Brigadoon
Jimmy Stewart
Actor
20-May-1908 2-Jul-1997 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Lewis Stone
Actor
15-Nov-1879 12-Sep-1953 Judge James Hardy
Maxine Stuart
Actor
28-Jun-1918 6-Jun-2013 Amanda Earp on The Rousters
Frank Tashlin
Film Director
19-Feb-1913 5-May-1972 Artists and Models
Sharon Tate
Actor
24-Jan-1943 8-Aug-1969 Polanski's wife murdered by Manson family
Sidney Toler
Actor
28-Apr-1874 12-Feb-1947 Charlie Chan
Lupe Velez
Actor
18-Jul-1908 13-Dec-1944 The Mexican Spitfire
Jerry Wald
Film/TV Producer
16-Sep-1911 13-Jul-1962 Peyton Place
Jean Wallace
Actor
12-Oct-1923 14-Feb-1990 The Big Combo
Ray Walston
Actor
2-Dec-1914 1-Jan-2001 My Favorite Martian
Bruno Walter
Conductor
15-Sep-1876 17-Feb-1962 Conductor, Leipzig Gewandhaus, 1929-33
Ned Washington
Songwriter
15-Aug-1901 20-Dec-1976 When You Wish Upon a Star
Lew Wasserman
Business
22-Mar-1913 3-Jun-2002 Chairman and CEO of MCA, 1946-95
Clifton Webb
Actor
11-Nov-1889 13-Oct-1966 Laura
Tim Whelan
Film Director
2-Nov-1892 12-Aug-1957 The Divorce of Lady X
Richard A. Whiting
Composer
12-Nov-1891 10-Feb-1938 Ain't We Got Fun?
May Whitty
Actor
19-Jun-1865 29-May-1948 Night Must Fall
Fred M. Wilcox
Film Director
22-Dec-1907 23-Sep-1964 Forbidden Planet
Billy Wilder
Film Director
22-Jun-1906 27-Mar-2002 Sunset Blvd.
Marie Windsor
Actor
11-Dec-1919 10-Dec-2000 The Killing
Shelley Winters
Actor
18-Aug-1920 14-Jan-2006 Method actress and camp queen
David L. Wolper
Film/TV Producer
11-Jan-1928 10-Aug-2010 Roots
Ed Wynn
Actor
9-Nov-1886 19-Jun-1966 Requiem for a Heavyweight
Richard D. Zanuck
Film/TV Producer
13-Dec-1934 13-Jul-2012 Driving Miss Daisy



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