Westchester Hills Cemetery, New York City, USA

The Westchester Hills Cemetery, approximately 20 miles north of New York City, was established at 400 Saw Mill River Road in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York. It welcomes the burial of Christians and Jews, and many well-known entertainers and performers are interred there. It contains the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue cemetery.

Notable interments

• Barricini family, boxed candy makers
• Charles E. Bloch (1927-2006), President Bloch Publishing Company
• Ilka Chase (1900-1978), actress and novelist
• Mischa Elman (1891-1967), violinist
• I. J. Fox, furrier
• Stanley P. Friedman, writer
• John Garfield (1913-1952), actor
• George Gershwin (1898-1937), composer
• Ira Gershwin (1896-1983), lyricist
• 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
• 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 New York City landmarks 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
• Preston Robert Tisch (1926-2005), financier and business magnate
• Rabbi Stephen Wise (1874-1949), religious leader