
EAGLE ROCK
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDED UPON A ROCK IN 1911
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDED UPON A ROCK IN 1911
"Eagle
Rock is one of seven communitie
s that make up the Northeast section of
Los Angeles. An estimated 24,000 residents live in Eagle Rock. There
are approximately 600 businesses.
Nestled in the mountains to the north, Pasadena to the east and
Glendale to the west, Eagle Rock is primarily a community of diverse
single family residents. Location is everything, with the Glendale
Freeway on the west and the 134 Freeway to the north, beaches, desert,
mountains and downtown Los Angeles are only minutes away."
Eagle Rock Camber of Commerce
Notable residents
- Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote Good Will Hunting while living in a home on Hill Drive in Eagle Rock
- Guy Allison (musician, keyboards for The Moody Blues, Air Supply and The Doobie Brothers)
- Maria Bamford (comedienne)
- Luis Bonilla (musician)
- Marlon Brando (actor)[19]
- Amanda Brown (musician and co-manager of Not Not Fun records)
- Scott Colley (jazz musician, recording artist)
- Jay Duplass (film writer/director/producer)
- Paul Ecke (botanicals)[19]
- Terry Gilliam (Monty Python member, filmmaker and animator)
- John Michael Higgins (actor)
- Aldous Huxley (English author)
- Roger Ingram (musician, trumpeter for Harry Connick, Jr and author)
- Tim Kasher (musician)
- Dean Menta (musician)
- Carlos R. Moreno (jurist)[19]
- Barack Obama (President of the United States)[20]
- Marcel Ophüls (filmmaker)
- Marion Peck (artist)
- Zasu Pitts (actress)[19]
- Hanson Puthuff (artist)[19]
- Zack de la Rocha (musician, Rage Against the Machine)[21]
- Mark Ryden (artist)
- Robert Shaw (conductor)[19]
- Marley Shelton (actress)
- Scott Shriner (musician, bassist for Weezer)
- John Steinbeck (Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winning author)[22]
- Madeleine Stowe (actress)
- Marshall Thompson (actor)[19]
- Dalton Trumbo (screenwriter, author)[19]
- Chris Vrenna (musician)
- Lindsay Wagner (actress)
- Virginia Weidler (child star)
- Yvor Winters (literary critic)
- Luke Wilson, actor, lived in Eagle Rock while attending Occidental College