Westchester Hills Cemetery

Cemetery in Westchester County, New York

40°59′32″N 73°51′36″W / 40.99222°N 73.86000°W / 40.99222; -73.86000Find a GraveWestchester Hills Cemetery

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
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^[1]
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