Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 10, 1919
Died
Jun 04, 2005
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Credits
48 titles
Lorna Thayer
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorna Thayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Frankie and Johnny
Flower Mart Vendor
Nothing in Common
Auditioning Grandma
Buddy Buddy
Lady
The Aliens Are Coming
Waitress
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Hospital Receptionist
CHiPs
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Lilly Downs
Smoke In The Wind
Ma Mondier
Alice Goodbody
Yvonne
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
Mrs. Gibbs
The Dion Brothers
TV Interviewer (uncredited)
The Family Kovack
Thelma
Rhinoceros
Restaurant Owner
Mrs. Sundance
Fanny Porter
Skyjacked
Weber's mother
Cisco Pike
Swimming Lady
The Andromeda Strain
Woman (uncredited)
Five Easy Pieces
Waitress
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Widow Wycherly
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Garrison's Gorillas
That Girl
The Dick Van Dyke Show
87th Precinct
Freckles
Alice Cooper
The Tall Man
The Detectives
Johnny Ringo
Mrs. Haig
Black Saddle
Belle Bronson
Natchez
Belle
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Mortua
Playhouse 90
Belle
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Carol Kelley
Women's Prison
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Medic
Lorraine Lockwood
Jennifer
Molly
Letter to Loretta
Christine Markham
I Led Three Lives
The Lusty Men
Grace Burgess
Cavalcade of America
Miss Holmes
Dragnet
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Irene Williams
Boston Blackie
Lux Video Theatre
Liza