Biography
Valda Joanne Hansen (November 3, 1932 β July 21, 1993) was an American actress, known for her performances in a number of B-movies in the 1950s and 1970s.
Her most famous role was that of the White Ghost in Ed Wood's Night of the Ghouls (1959). She had previously played a stripper in Strips Around the World (1955).
She returned to the screen in the 1970s and appeared in movies such as Cain's Cutthroats (1971), Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973) Norma (1970), The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) and Wham! Bam! Thank You, Spaceman! (1975).
She also appeared in a 1992 documentary about the filmmaker Ed Wood entitled Flying Saucers over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion, in which she said very nice things about the famed 1950s director. Valda, who believed deeply in astrology, said she and Wood shared a psychic link: "We were on this Earth, but not of it."
Filmography
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Movies 8
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TV Shows 1
Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion (1992)
The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1988)
Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman (1974)
Slaughter's Big Rip Off (1973)
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
Outlaw Riders (1971)
Norma (1970)
Cain's Cutthroats (1970)
Night of the Ghouls (1959)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1932-11-03
Deathday1993-07-21 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceLos Angeles, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsZelda
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