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Born Luana Margo Anderson on 12 May, 1938, Luana Anders began her career as a bike messenger at MGM, along with fellow actors, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight and future film producers George Edwards, and Fred Roos. She convinced Nicholson to join her in her improv class with legendary teacher and veteran character actor Jeff Corey. Luana began in such B-films as Reform School Girl (1957) (alongside her lifelong friend Sally Kellerman) and Life Begins at 17 (1958), in which she costarred with actor (and future producer) Mark Damon.
Luan also worked with Damon in Roger Corman's The Young Racers (1963). The sound man on The Young Racers (1963) asked her if she wanted to star in his first directing effort. The sound man was Francis Ford Coppola, and Anders played the conniving and duplicitous Louise Haloran, in Coppola's debut feature, Dementia 13 (1963).
She played Vincent Price's sister, Catherine Medina in Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961).
Anders acted opposite Charles Grodin, in Sex and the College Girl (1964). Luana appeared in 3 films for director Curtis Harrington; ingenue Ellen Sands, in Night Tide (1961), a cameo as a party guest in Games (1967), and repressed librarian Louise in the perverse The Killing Kind (1973).
Anders achieved cult status as groovy hippie commune dweller Lisa in Easy Rider (1969). Robert Altman frequently credited Luana with getting his career started. She appeared as a streetwalker Sandy Dennis picks up in Altman's That Cold Day in the Park (1969).
Friend Jack Nicholson made a point of seeing and commenting on the movie during the Cannes film festival where Easy Rider (1969) won the Palme D'or; the subsequent publicity gave Altman the notoriety to launch his career.
She frequently acted in films with good friend Nicholson; she was especially memorable as a Buddhist chanting party girl in The Last Detail (1973). Luana was terrorized by a deranged Mickey Rooney on an abandoned studio back-lot in the unreleased gonzo oddity The Manipulator (1971) and starred in Robert Downey Sr.'s Greaser's Palace (1972).
Anders appeared in Shampoo (1975), a film reportedly based on her romance with hairdresser Richard Alcala; the picture was written by her friend and fellow Corey classmate Robert Towne.
She had a recurring part on the daytime soap opera, Santa Barbara (1984).
Amongst the series Luana appeared on, are Hunter (1984), Ben Casey (1961) and The Rifleman (1958).
Anders co-wrote the comedy Limit Up (1989), and was uncredited in scripting the action/adventure romp Fire on the Amazon (1993), which was Sandra Bullock's debut film for Corman. She appeared in a number of movies with collaborator Richard Martini, including You Can't Hurry Love (1988), about which Variety declared, "It's about time we see the great Luana Anders back on the screen".
She was a member of the improvisational comedy stage group, The Committee.
A lifelong Buddhist and supporter of the American chapter of Soka Gakkai International, Luana Anders died on July 21, 1996.- Actor
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Herb Edelman was born on 5 November 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The Odd Couple (1968), The Golden Girls (1985) and The Way We Were (1973). He was married to Louise Sorel. He died on 21 July 1996 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- British character actor of Ukrainian-Jewish ancestry. Prolific on stage and screen, he was especially adept at impersonating people from diverse ethnicities, including Indians, Arabs, Japanese, Mexicans and Boers. He was a graduate of RADA and winner of the Forbes-Robertson and Kendal prizes. Morris frequently appeared with the Royal Exchange, the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His many successes on stage included Professor Godbole in "A Passage to India" (1960) and Pozzo in "Waiting for Godot" (1980.) On screen, he specialised -- true to form -- in exotic oriental characters. His gallery of personae included Padmasambhava in "The Abominable Snowman" chapter of Doctor Who (1963), Detective Bose in Nine Hours to Rama (1963), Beirut police chief Takla in Department S (1969) ("A Fish Out of Water"), assorted shady Eastern Europeans in The Avengers (1961), The Rat Catchers (1966), and so on. Morris is best remembered as the insidious Thomas Cromwell in the BBC's The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), a role he was said to have researched by visiting Tudor castles and studying contemporary portraits.
- Manuel Ramirez was a writer, known for Hepe Goes to War (1981), Bruce liit (1978) and Ang hari at ang Alas (1978). He was married to Paulita Angeles Dela Cruz. He died on 21 July 1996 in the Philippines.
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Phyllis Gilman was born on 18 June 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Carl Leserman, Lou Holtz and John Ray Long Jr.. She died on 21 July 1996 in Riverside, California, USA.- Norah Gale was born on 20 January 1917 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Once in a Million (1936). She died on 21 July 1996 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
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Inger Jacobsen was born on 13 October 1923 in Oslo, Norway. She was an actress, known for I de beste familier (1994), Einar Schankes gledeshus (1975) and Skraphandlerne (1975). She died on 21 July 1996 in Oslo, Norway.- Actress
Nora Gale was born on 20 January 1917 in Bristol, England, UK. She was an actress. She died on 21 July 1996 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.- Waluliso was born on 2 July 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Heiteres Bezirksgericht (1987). He died on 21 July 1996 in Vienna, Austria.
- Xosé Otero Laxeiro was born in 1908 in Lalín, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. He died on 21 July 1996 in Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.