Lorna Thayer
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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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Movies (26)
Frankie and Johnny
1991 · Flower Mart Vendor
Nothing in Common
1986 · Auditioning Grandma
Buddy Buddy
1981 · Lady
The Aliens Are Coming
1980 · Waitress
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979 · Hospital Receptionist
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
1976 · Lilly Downs
Smoke In The Wind
1975 · Ma Mondier
Alice Goodbody
1974 · Yvonne
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974 · Mrs. Gibbs
The Dion Brothers
1974 · TV Interviewer (uncredited)
The Family Kovack
1974 · Thelma
Rhinoceros
1974 · Restaurant Owner
Mrs. Sundance
1974 · Fanny Porter
Skyjacked
1972 · Weber's mother
Cisco Pike
1972 · Swimming Lady
The Andromeda Strain
1971 · Woman (uncredited)
Five Easy Pieces
1970 · Waitress
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
1969 · Widow Wycherly
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968 · Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Freckles
1960 · Alice Cooper
Natchez
1958 · Belle
The Women of Pitcairn Island
1956 · Mortua
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955 · Carol Kelley
Women's Prison
1955
Jennifer
1953 · Molly
The Lusty Men
1952 · Grace Burgess
TV shows (22)
CHiPs
1977
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
That Girl
1966
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961
87th Precinct
1961
The Tall Man
1960
The Detectives
1959
Johnny Ringo
1959 · Mrs. Haig
Black Saddle
1959 · Belle Bronson
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Playhouse 90
1956 · Belle
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956 · Mrs. Williams
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
Medic
1954 · Lorraine Lockwood
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Christine Markham
I Led Three Lives
1953
Cavalcade of America
1952 · Miss Holmes
Dragnet
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Irene Williams
Boston Blackie
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Liza