William Randolph Hearst

Birth Name:

William Randolph Hearst Sr.

Birth Date:

April 29, 1863

Birth Place:

San Francisco, California

Death Date:

August 14, 1951

Place of Death:

1007 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California

Age:

Cause of Death:

Heart attack and stroke

Cemetery Name:

Cypress Lawn Memorial Park

Claim to Fame:

Business and Finance

William Randolph Hearst was the heir to a mining fortune, publisher and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human interest stories. His life story was the main inspiration for Charles Foster Kane, the lead character in Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane (1941). His Hearst Castle, constructed on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean near San Simeon and filled with the plundered riches of Europe, has been preserved as a State Historical Monument and is designated as a National Historic Landmark.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Cypress Lawn Memorial Park

1370 El Camino Real

Colma, California, 94014

USA

North America

Map:

Grave Location:

Section H

Grave Location Description

As you drive into the cemetery on Cypress Avenue, park at the intersection of Cypress and Willow Avenue and the largest mausoleum in the neighboring three counties before you contains the remains of William Randolph Hearst, Sr.