Lorna Thayer
Acting • Born 1919-03-10 – Died 2005-06-04
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.
Filmography
48 credits
Five Easy Pieces
Movie • 1970
Waitress
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Movie • 1955
Carol Kelley
Nothing in Common
Movie • 1986
Auditioning Grandma
The Lusty Men
Movie • 1952
Grace Burgess
Buddy Buddy
Movie • 1981
Lady
Frankie and Johnny
Movie • 1991
Flower Mart Vendor
Skyjacked
Movie • 1972
Weber's mother
Natchez
Movie • 1958
Belle
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Gibbs
Freckles
Movie • 1960
Alice Cooper
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Movie • 1956
Mortua
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Movie • 1969
Widow Wycherly
Jennifer
Movie • 1953
Molly
The Family Kovack
Movie • 1974
Thelma
The Aliens Are Coming
Movie • 1980
Waitress
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Movie • 1979
Hospital Receptionist
Alice Goodbody
Movie • 1974
Yvonne
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Movie • 1976
Lilly Downs
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Movie • 1968
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Mrs. Sundance
Movie • 1974
Fanny Porter
Smoke In The Wind
Movie • 1975
Ma Mondier
Rhinoceros
Movie • 1974
Restaurant Owner
Cisco Pike
Movie • 1971
Swimming Lady
Women's Prison
Movie • 1955
The Dion Brothers
Movie • 1974
TV Interviewer (uncredited)
The Andromeda Strain
Movie • 1971
Woman (uncredited)
CHiPs
TV • 1977
Garrison's Gorillas
TV • 1967
The Dick Van Dyke Show
TV • 1961
That Girl
TV • 1966
Dragnet
TV • 1951
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
87th Precinct
TV • 1961
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
I Led Three Lives
TV • 1953
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Mrs. Haig
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Liza
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Irene Williams
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV • 1954
Medic
TV • 1954
Lorraine Lockwood
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Belle Bronson
The Detectives
TV • 1959
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Miss Holmes
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Christine Markham
Boston Blackie
TV • 1951
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Belle