- Luana Anders
Luana Anders (
May 12 ,1938 –July 21 ,1996 ), was an Americanfilm andtelevision actress . She began her career appearing in several supporting roles in low budgetB-movie s forAmerican International Pictures , quite a few of them directed byRoger Corman . She was part of a group of well known actors who met in the acting class of actorJeff Corey . Fellow thespians includedJack Nicholson ,Sally Kellerman ,Robert Towne and eventually Corman, who cast his early films directly out of the class which he also attended.Infobox actor
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deathplace = Mar Vista,California , U.S.
(breast cancer)
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spouse =Anders appeared in a number of low-budget films, including starring roles in "
Life Begins at 17 " and "Reform School Girls " along with Sally Kellerman. She made her broadway debut withRex Harrison in "The Reluctant Debutante " directed byPeter Brooks , which was later made into a film.Probably her best known performances were as
Vincent Price 's sister in Corman's "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1961) and as a murder victim inFrancis Ford Coppola 's "Dementia 13 " (1963). She also appeared inCurtis Harrington 's cult classic "Night Tide " (1961) oppositeDennis Hopper . Hopper would later cast her as one of the hippie commune girls who go skinny dipping withPeter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in "Easy Rider " (1969) and she later worked with Nicholson in "The Missouri Breaks " (1978), among other films.Her appearances were in a wide range of episodic television, including "
The Rifleman ", "The Andy Griffith Show ", "One Step Beyond ", "Dragnet " and "Hunter ."She also appeared briefly on soaps, including the "Santa Barbara" televisionsoap opera during the 1991 – 1992 season.As a writer, Anders wrote the original screenplay of "
Fire On the Amazon " (using the pseudonym "Margo Blue") for Roger Corman which featured the screen debut of actress Sandra Bullock. She also co-wrote the comedy film "Limit Up " for MCEG withRichard Martini .Robert Altman credited Anders for giving his career a boostFact|date=February 2007 when she appeared in his film "A Cold Day in the Park " which premiered in 1969 at theCannes Film Festival . Anders' friend Jack Nicholson was being feted at the festival for "Easy Rider" and he made a point of attending a screening and created a media sensation for Altman's work. Nicholson also worked with Anders several of his films, including "The Trip ", "Goin' South ", "The Last Detail ", and "The Two Jakes ." Nicholson mentioned her passing in his Oscar acceptance speech for "As Good As It Gets ".A lifelong Buddhist and supporter of the American chapter of
Soka Gakkai International (SGI,) she died ofbreast cancer , in 1996.External links
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