Valda Hansen | |
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Born |
Valda Joanne Hansen November 3, 1932 Los Angeles, California, USA |
Died | July 21, 1993 Hollywood, California, USA |
(aged 60)
Years active | 1955–1975 |
Valda 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 -70s.
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) and Wham! Bam! Thank You, Spaceman! (1975, in which she was credited as Zelda). She also appeared in a 1990s documentary about the filmmaker Ed Wood.
Hansen retired from acting around 1975, and died in Hollywood in 1993, aged 60, from cancer.