As a condition of the contract between Ed Wood and a Baptist organization covering production costs, many of the Plan 9 from Outer Space cast and crew had to be baptized in a swimming pool in Beverly Hills.

Producers J. Edward Reynolds and Hugh Thomas, Jr. appear in the film as gravediggers.

A Hollywood chiropodist and hypnotist named Thomas R. Mason was hired to double for Bela Lugosi.

The footage featuring Bela Lugosi was shot for an aborted project called The Vampire's Tomb. The house belonging to Lugosi's "Old Man" was owned by Swedish wrestler-turned-actor Tor Johnson, who had performed with Lugosi in Wood's Bride of the Monster (1955) and Reginald Le Borg's The Black Sleep (1956).

During principal photography, Plan 9 from Outer Space was called Grave Robbers from Outer Space, which was considered blasphemous by the film's Baptist financiers. The original title is still used in Criswell's opening monologue.

Maila Nurmi was paid $200 for one day's work on Plan 9 from Outer Space and rode to and from the shoot on the Santa Monica Boulevard bus in full Vampira makeup and costume.

After an argument with Ed Wood, veteran makeup man Harry Thomas insisted that his name not be used in the film's credits. Thomas' assistant, Tom Bartholemew, received sole credit.

Location footage of an actual graveyard was shot in a San Fernando Valley cemetery slated for relocation.

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Compiled by Richard Harland Smith