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The Final Resting Place of Charles Boyer.
Charles Boyer
28th.August 1899 -
26th.August 1978
Located in the St. Ann section.
Cause of Death - Suicide.
Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was a French actor who starred in several classic Hollywood films.
Born in Figeac, Lot, Midi-Pyrénées, France, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1920s and 1930s. He continued to make films over the next several decades. He eventually became an
American citizen. Charles Boyer is best known for his role in the 1944 film Gaslight in which he tried to convince Ingrid Bergman's character that she was going insane. Some years earlier, it was Boyer's role in Algiers (1938) that caused many to credit him with the never-heard line "Come with me to the
casbah."
In 1948 Charles Boyer was made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. He continued to act until a few years before his death, his last major film role being that of the High Lama in a musical version of Lost Horizon (1973).
For his contribution to the motion picture and television industries, Charles Boyer has two stars on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Two days after his wife, British actress Pat Paterson, died from cancer, Charles Boyer committed suicide with an overdose of Seconal. He was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, United States alongside with his wife and son Michael Charles Boyer, who had committed suicide in 1965 at the age of 21.