# Luana Anders

Luana Anders (born Luana Margo Anderson; May 12, 1938 – July 21, 1996) was an American actress and screenwriter.

## Career

Anders appeared in a number of low-budget films, including starring roles in Life Begins at 17 and Reform School Girl, along with Sally Kellerman. Her best-known performances may have been as Vincent Price's sister in Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and as a murder victim in Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13 (1963). She also appeared in Curtis Harrington's cult film Night Tide (1961) opposite Dennis Hopper, who later cast her as one of the hippie commune girls who go skinny-dipping with Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider (1969).
Anders appeared in Robert Altman's That Cold Day in the Park, which premiered in 1969 at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as being cast in several of her friend Jack Nicholson's films, including The Trip (1967), The Last Detail (1973), The Missouri Breaks (1976), Goin' South (1978), and The Two Jakes (1990). Her other film credits include When the Legends Die (1972), The Killing Kind (1973), Shampoo (1975), Personal Best (1982), Movers & Shakers (1985), You Can't Hurry Love (1988), Doppelganger (1993), Wild Bill (1995), and American Strays (1996).
She appeared in a wide range of episodic television, including The Rifleman, Sugarfoot, the "Incident of the Running Man" episode of Rawhide, The Andy Griffith Show, One Step Beyond, Dragnet, as Theresa Ames in "The Guests" (an episode of The Outer Limits), Adam-12 and Hunter. She appeared briefly in several soap operas, including Santa Barbara in the 1991–1992 season.
As a writer, she wrote the original screenplay of Fire on the Amazon (using the pseudonym Margo Blue) for executive producer Roger Corman. She also co-wrote the comedy film Limit Up for MCEG/Virgin with Richard Martini and had a cameo in the film.

## Personal life

Anders was a lifelong Buddhist and supporter of the American chapter of Soka Gakkai International (SGI). She died of breast cancer in 1996, aged 58.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1957 | Reform School Girl | Josie Brigg | |
| 1958 | The Notorious Mr. Monks | Gilda Hadley | |
| 1958 | The Man Who Died Twice | Young Girl Addict | |
| 1958 | Life Begins at 17 | Carol Peck | |
| 1959 | The FBI Story | Mrs. Graham | Uncredited |
| 1961 | Night Tide | Ellen Sands | |
| 1961 | The Pit and the Pendulum | Catherine Medina | |
| 1963 | The Young Racers | Henny | |
| 1963 | Dementia 13 | Louise Haloran | |
| 1964 | Sex and the College Girl | Gwen | |
| 1966 | Mondo Keyhole | Vicky | Voice, Uncredited |
| 1967 | The Trip | Waitress | |
| 1967 | Games | Party Guest | |
| 1968 | How Sweet It Is! | Agatzi Girl | |
| 1969 | Easy Rider | Lisa | |
| 1969 | That Cold Day in the Park | Sylvia | |
| 1971 | The Manipulator | Carlotta | |
| 1972 | Greaser's Palace | Cholera | |
| 1972 | When the Legends Die | Mary | |
| 1973 | The Last Detail | Donna | |
| 1973 | The Killing Kind | Louise | |
| 1975 | Shampoo | Devra | |
| 1976 | The Missouri Breaks | Rancher's Wife | |
| 1978 | Goin' South | Lorette Anderson | |
| 1979 | Paraclete | The Paraclete | Short |
| 1980 | Board and Care | Carolyn | Short |
| 1981 | One from the Heart | | Uncredited |
| 1982 | Personal Best | Rita Cahill | |
| 1984 | Irreconcilable Differences | Atlanta Widow | |
| 1985 | Movers & Shakers | Violette | |
| 1988 | You Can't Hurry Love | Macie Hayes | |
| 1989 | Limit Up | Teacher | |
| 1990 | The Two Jakes | Florist | |
| 1993 | Doppelganger | Ginger | |
| 1993 | Nowhere to Run | Town Meeting Chairwoman | |
| 1993 | Heart and Souls | Records Bureaucrat | |
| 1994 | Criminal Passion | Martha | |
| 1995 | Wild Bill | Sanitarium Woman | |
| 1996 | Point of Betrayal | Nurse | |
| 1996 | American Strays | Martha | |
| 1997 | Cannes Man | Agent on Phone | (final film role) |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1957 | The Restless Gun | Lucy Anne | "Jody" |
| 1958 | Letter to Loretta | Ellen | "Time of Decision" |
| 1959 | Cimarron City | Nancy Tucker | "Child of Fear" |
| 1959 | The Rifleman | Lisabeth Bishop | "Shivaree" |
| 1959 | M Squad | Lola Green | "The Harpes" |
| 1959 | Sugarfoot | Princess | "The Avengers" |
| 1959 | Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond | Alice Denning | "The Burning Girl" |
| 1960 | Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond | Joan Goss | "The Voice" |
| 1960 | Lawman | Ellie Phelan | "The Swamper" |
| 1961 | The Islanders | Trina | "To Bell a Cat" |
| 1961 | Rawhide | Maddy Trager | S3:E25, "Incident of the Running Man" |
| 1962 | Ben Casey | Lorraine Walenchek | "And Eve Wore a Veil of Tears" |
| 1963 | Ben Casey | Ann Bentley | "Dispel the Black Cyclone That Shakes the Throne" |
| 1963 | The Eleventh Hour | Cathy Lewis | "Try to Keep Alive Until Next Tuesday" |
| 1963 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Margaret | "The Wrecker" |
| 1964 | The Outer Limits | Theresa "Tess" Ames | "The Guests" |
| 1966 | Vacation Playhouse | Sybil Rockefeler | "My Lucky Penny" |
| 1967 | The Andy Griffith Show | Miss Clark | "A Visit to Barney Fife", "Barney Comes to Mayberry" |
| 1966 | That Girl | Shirley McChesney | "Don't Just Do Something, Stand There" |
| 1967 | That Girl | Beryl | "Leaving the Nest Is for the Birds" |
| 1967 | Accidental Family | Esther | "What Is This - Thanksgiving or a Nightmare?' |
| 1967 | Dragnet 1967 | Noradelle De Leone | "The Big Dog" |
| 1968 | Dragnet 1967 | Anna Marie Harmon | "The Suicide Attempt" |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Maggie | "...And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin" |
| 1968 | Adam-12 | Jane Tipton | "Log 111: The Boa Constrictor" |
| 1969 | My Friend Tony | Louise | "Computer Murder" |
| 1969 | Mayberry R.F.D. | Violet Cashier | "Goober and the Telephone Girl" "Emmett's Retirement" |
| 1970 | Dragnet 1967 | Eula Van Meter | "Burglary: The Dognappers" |
| 1971 | Ironside | Nina Loring | "The Target" |
| 1972 | Evil Roy Slade | Alice Fern | TV film |
| 1972 | Bonanza | Julie | "Forever" |
| 1972 | Mannix | Angie McCall | "Lost Sunday" |
| 1974 | Firehouse | Dawn | "Strike, Spare, and Burn" |
| 1977 | Little House on the Prairie | Lottie McGinins | "Blizzard" |
| 1978 | The Next Step Beyond | Harriet Jessup | "The Love Connection" |
| 1990 | Hunter | Sarah Farrell | "Second Sight" |
| 1991 | Switched at Birth | Nurse Ames | TV film |
| 1991-1992 | Santa Barbara | Rona | TV series |
| 1992 | In Sickness and in Health | Dorothy | TV film |