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Lorna Thayer
Actor
Born March 10, 1919Died June 4, 2005 (86 years)
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Lorna Thayer (10 March 1919 - June 4, 2005) was an American character actress.
Thayer was born in Boston, the daughter of silent screen actress Louise Gibney. She appeared often in theatre and on television. In 1955 she played in The Beast with a Million Eyes with Paul Birch. She played minor roles in the films The Lusty Men, Texas City and Frankie and Johnny.
It was her role in the iconic 1970 film Five Easy Pieces as the waitress who refuses to allow Jack Nicholson's character to order a side of wheat toast that she is most likely to be remembered for and identified with. The scene has come to be known as the "chicken salad scene".
She died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Retirement Home in Woodland Hills, California aged 86, after battling Alzheimer's disease for five years.
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Lorna Thayer (10 March 1919 - June 4, 2005) was an American character actress.
Thayer was born in Boston, the daughter of silent screen actress Louise Gibney. She appeared often in theatre and on television. In 1955 she played in The Beast with a Million Eyes with Paul Birch. She played minor roles in the films The Lusty Men, Texas City and Frankie and Johnny.
It was her role in the iconic 1970 film Five Easy Pieces as the waitress who refuses to allow Jack Nicholson's character to order a side of wheat toast that she is most likely to be remembered for and identified with. The scene has come to be known as the "chicken salad scene".
She died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Retirement Home in Woodland Hills, California aged 86, after battling Alzheimer's disease for five years.
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Filmography
| 1991 | Frankie and Johnny · as Flower Mart Vendor |
| 1986 | Nothing in Common · as Auditioning Grandma |
| 1984 | Rituals (TV Series) · as Katherine Chapin |
| 1981 | Buddy Buddy · as Lady |
| 1980 | The Aliens Are Coming · as Waitress |
| 1979 | The Suicide's Wife · as Therese Harrington |
| 1979 | Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers · as Hospital Receptionist |
| 1978 | The Next Step Beyond (TV Series) · as Miss Argus |
| 1977 | CHiPs (TV Series) |
| 1976 | America at the Movies · as Waitress |
| 1976 | Revenge of the Cheerleaders · as Lilly Downs |
| 1975 | Smoke in the Wind · as Ma Mondier |
| 1974 | Alice Goodbody · as Yvonne |
| 1974 | It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy · as Mrs. Gibbs |
| 1974 | The Dion Brothers · as Tv Interviewer (uncredited) |
| 1974 | Rhinoceros · as Restaurant Owner |
| 1974 | Mrs. Sundance · as Fanny Porter |
| 1972 | Skyjacked · as Weber's Mother |
| 1972 | Glass Houses · as Woman Smoking In Pool |
| 1971 | Cisco Pike · as Swimming Lady |
| 1971 | The Andromeda Strain · as Woman |
| 1970 | Night Chase · as Cast |
| 1970 | The Traveling Executioner · as Madam |
| 1970 | Five Easy Pieces · as Waitress |
| 1969 | Dr. Heidegger's Experiment · as Widow Wycherly |
| 1968 | The Shakiest Gun in the West · as Saloon Girl (uncredited) |
| 1968 | It Takes a Thief (TV Series) · as Female Warden |
| 1967 | Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round · as Passenger On Mexico Flight |
| 1966 | |
| 1963 | Police Nurse · as Cast |
| 1963 | General Hospital (TV Series) · as Charlotte Hepworth |
| 1961 | The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series) |
| 1961 | 87th Precinct (TV Series) |
| 1961 | Follow The Sun (TV Series) · as Lorna Handsin Wymond |
| 1960 | Freckles · as Alice Cooper |
| 1960 | The Tall Man (TV Series) |
| 1959 | The Detectives (1959) (TV Series) |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Johnny Ringo (TV Series) · as Mrs. Haig |
| 1959 | The Dennis O'Keefe Show (TV Series) · as Ernestine Dix |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Connie Laverne |
| 1959 | Black Saddle (TV Series) · as Belle Bronson |
| 1958 | I Want to Live! · as Corona Guard |
| 1957 | The Court of Last Resort (TV Series) · as Beth |
| 1957 | The Californians (TV Series) · as Millicent Hicks |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Ethel Archer |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) |
| 1957 | O. Henry Playhouse (TV Series) · as Martella Garvey |
| 1956 | The Women of Pitcairn Island · as Mortua |
| 1956 | West Point (TV Series) · as Mrs. Henderson |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Belle |
| 1956 | Circus Boy (TV Series) · as Zelda |
| 1956 | The Adventures of Jim Bowie (TV Series) |
| 1956 | I've Lived Before · as Mrs. Fred Bolan |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) |
| 1955 | The Jane Wyman Show (TV Series) · as Nurse Ann |
| 1955 | The Beast with a Million Eyes · as Carol Kelley |
| 1955 | |
| 1955 | Soldiers of Fortune (TV Series) · as Kirstin Winslow |
| 1955 | The Star and the Story (TV Series) · as Mrs. Hanson |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (TV Series) |
| 1954 | Studio 57 (TV Series) · as Margaret Winterton |
| 1954 | Medic (TV Series) · as Lorraine Lockwood |
| 1954 | Captain Midnight (TV Series) · as Mrs. Kingsley |
| 1954 | The Lone Wolf (TV Series) · as Babe |
| 1954 | Public Defender (TV Series) · as Florence Novak |
| 1953 | Jennifer · as Molly |
| 1953 | The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) · as Christine Markham |
| 1953 | I Led 3 Lives (TV Series) |
| 1952 | The Lusty Men · as Grace Burgess |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as Miss Holmes |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Jessie Fremont |
| 1952 | The Unexpected (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1952 | Texas City · as Aunt Harriet Upton |
| 1951 | Dragnet (1951) (TV Series) |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Irene Williams |
| 1951 | Boston Blackie (TV Series) · as Rachel Hendrix |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Liza |
| 1949 | Fireside Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |