Valda Hansen | |
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| Born | Valda Joanne Hansen November 3, 1932 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | July 21, 1993 (aged 60) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Years active | 1955–1975 |
| Notable work | Night of the Ghouls (1959) |
Valda Joanne Hansen (November 3, 1932 – 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."[citation needed]