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Lorna Thayer
Actor
Died 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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Filmography
| 1991 | Frankie and Johnny · as Flower Vendor |
| 1986 | Nothing in Common · as Auditioning Grandma |
| 1981 | Buddy Buddy · as Lady |
| 1979 | Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers · as Hospital Receptionist |
| 1977 | CHiPs (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1976 | Revenge of the Cheerleaders · as Lilly Downs |
| 1976 | America at the Movies · as Waitress |
| 1975 | Smoke in the Wind · as Ma Mondier |
| 1974 | Rhinoceros · as Restaurant Owner |
| 1974 | Alice Goodbody · as Yvonne |
| 1974 | Mrs. Sundance · as Fanny Porter |
| 1974 | The Dion Brothers · as T.V. Interviewer |
| 1972 | Skyjacked · as Weber's mother |
| 1972 | Glass Houses · as Woman Smoking in Pool |
| 1971 | The Andromeda Strain · as Woman |
| 1971 | Cisco Pike · as Swimming Lady |
| 1970 | Five Easy Pieces · as Waitress |
| 1970 | The Traveling Executioner · as Madam |
| 1968 | The Shakiest Gun in the West · as Saloon Girl (uncredited) |
| 1968 | It Takes a Thief (TV Series) · as Female Warden |
| 1966 | Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round · as Passenger on Mexico Flight |
| 1966 | That Girl (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1963 | Police Nurse · as actor |
| 1961 | Follow The Sun (TV Series) · as Lorna Handsin Wymond |
| 1961 | The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1960 | Freckles · as Alice Cooper |
| 1960 | The Tall Man (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | The Detectives (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The Dennis O'Keefe Show (TV Series) · as Ernestine Dix |
| 1959 | The Rebel (TV Series) · as Amanda Tarrington |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Connie LaVerne |
| 1958 | I Want to Live! · as Corona Guard |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Ethel Archer |
| 1957 | The Californians (TV Series) · as Millicent Hicks |
| 1956 | The Adventures of Jim Bowie (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1955 | The Beast with a Million Eyes · as Carol Kelley |
| 1955 | The Star and the Story (TV Series) · as Mrs. Hanson |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1954 | Public Defender (TV Series) · as Florence Novak |
| 1954 | Captain Midnight (TV Series) · as Mrs. Kingsley |
| 1954 | Medic (TV Series) · as Lorraine Lockwood |
| 1953 | The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) · as Christine Markham |
| 1952 | The Lusty Men · as Grace Burgess |
| 1952 | Texas City · as Aunt Harriet Upton |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Jessie Fremont |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as Miss Holmes |
| 1952 | Rebound (TV Series) · as Ruth |
| 1952 | The Unexpected (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1951 | Dragnet (1951) (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Liza |