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Grave Sightings: Jack Lemmon. By Stacy Conradt | Jun 24, 2015. ... Judging by Jack Lemmon’s tombstone at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in L.A., the actor was anything but a Grumpy Old Man.
Jun 27, 2001 · Jack Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925 and died in USC Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Center and Hospital, Los Angeles, California due to Bladder cancer on June 27, 2001. Jack Lemmon - The Tombstone Tourist
- The last laugh. Everyone is born. Everyone dies. It’s only the stuff that happens in the middle that makes us unique. Most tombstones either skip over that part entirely or offer mere platitudes about the person buried below.
- That’s all, folks. The great voiceover artist Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Pie, Sylvester, and many other popular cartoon characters, was also the voice of Looney Tunes’ ubiquitous sign-off, “The-the-the-that’s all folks.”
- The final commercial break. Are you obsessed with trying to answer the Jeopardy! questions that stump everyone? You have Merv Griffin to thank for that. The host of the eponymously titled talk show, which aired from 1962 to 1986, also created Wheel of Fortune.
- I told you so. In Princeton, New Jersey, you’ll find the gravestone of one William H. Hahn Jr, who ordered his tombstone himself a week or two before his demise.
- Jack Lemmon
- Mel Blanc
- Dorothy Parker
- George Burns
- Spike Milligan
- Billy Wilder
- Ernie Kovacs
- Jackie Gleason
Jack knew that the grave would be his final appearance. So he wanted to get top billing over the ground.
We heard Mel Blanc say “That’s All Folks” so many times in the cartoons. This time he really meant it.
Dorothy Parker picked out the perfect epitaph for when she was cremated and her ashes interned in Baltimore. She chose “Excuse My Dust”.
George Burns lived another 32 years after his wife and partner Gracie Allen passed away. After decades of working as a solo act, George used his and Gracie’s tombstone as an announcement that they were putting the act back together.
Irish comedian Spike Milligan insisted his tombstone carry the Gaelic message “Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite” meaning “I told you I was ill”. ]
Billy Wilder wanted everyone to know that he was first and foremost a writer. He also saw the downside in that.
Ernie Kovacs lived by the words on this tombstone, “Nothing In Moderation”. That apparently included death as well.
The Great One, Jackie Gleason turned one of most enduring catchphrases into this epitaph. And away he went.
- Jesse James. “Murdered by a traitor and coward whose name is not worthy to appear here” Outlaw Jesse James was famous for his bank robbery sprees, including one that led to a $10,000 reward for his capture.
- F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” One of the most famous closing lines in literary history, it seems fitting that it would be forever linked with its author following his death.
- Ludolph van Ceulen. “3.14159265358979323846264338327950288” Mathematician Ludolph van Ceulen was the first person to calculate the value of pi to 35 decimal places.
- Mel Blanc. “That’s all, folks” Famous voice actor Mel Blanc – who gave voice to characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig – immortalized one of his most well-known lines on his tombstone.
Mar 2, 2008 · Equally funny was Jack Lemmon's, who made it to one final marquee: Jack-Lemmon-Tombstone.jpg / Fans of Grumpy Old Men and The Odd Couple will be pleased to know that Walter Matthau is buried nearby.
Jun 28, 2001 · Born in a hospital elevator in 1925, Lemmon was the son of a Boston doughnut maker. In the late '40s, after Harvard and the navy, he moved to New York and began his career in radio and later in TV ...
