Cedar Park Cemetery, Emerson

Cedar Park Cemetery is a cemetery located in Emerson and Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

Noted interments

• Martin Balsam (1919–1996) won an Academy Award in 1965 for best supporting actor in A Thousand Clowns.^[1][2] He was survived by Irene Miller and their two children.
• Julian Beck (1925–1985) was an actor, director, poet, and painter^[3]
• Maxwell Bodenheim (1891–1954), American poet and novelist. Known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians^[4]
• Myron Cohen (1902–1986), comedian and storyteller^[5]
• Sammy Fain (1902–1989), composer of popular music^[6]
• Willie and Eugene Howard, comedians
• Joe E. Lewis^[2]
• John Marley (1907–1984), actor best known for the "horses's head" scene in The Godfather^[7]
• Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966) was a poet, whose first published work was the short story In Dreams Begin Responsibilities^[2][8]
• Leonard Farbstein (1902–1993) A United States Representative from the state of New York. ^[9]
• Isaac Bashevis Singer^[2]

See also

• Bergen County Cemeteries

References

1. Martin Balsam at Find a Grave
2. "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place". New York Times. March 28, 2004. Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus [sic] tends toward performers. Martin Balsam, who won both a Tony and an Oscar was buried there in 1996. Joe E. Lewis, the comic whose rough life was portrayed by Frank Sinatra in the 1957 movie, The Joker Is Wild, is nearby. (As are two illustrious nonperformers, the Nobel Prize writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and the poet Delmore Schwartz.)
3. Julian Beck at Find a Grave
4. Maxwell Bodenheim at Find a Grave
5. Myron Cohen at Find a Grave
6. Sammy Fain at Find a Grave
7. John Marley at Find a Grave
8. Delmore Schwartz at Find a Grave
9. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000015

External links

• Find-A-Grave information for Cedar Park Cemetery

Coordinates: 40°58′17″N 74°03′07″W / 40.9714°N 74.0519°W