Lorna Thayer

Known for ActingBorn 1919-03-10Died 2005-06-04Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Garrison's Gorillas

I Led Three Lives

Mrs. Sundance

87th Precinct

Smoke In The Wind

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Playhouse 90

Have Gun, Will Travel

Five Easy Pieces

The Andromeda Strain

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Frankie and Johnny

CHiPs

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

The Tall Man

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Detectives

The Lusty Men

Lux Video Theatre

Letter to Loretta

Buddy Buddy

Dragnet

Skyjacked

The Shakiest Gun in the West

That Girl

Medic

Black Saddle

Nothing in Common

Jennifer

Johnny Ringo

Cisco Pike

Rhinoceros

Women's Prison

The Dion Brothers

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

Freckles

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The Family Kovack

Alice Goodbody

The Aliens Are Coming

Revenge of the Cheerleaders

Cavalcade of America

The Women of Pitcairn Island

Boston Blackie

The Beast with a Million Eyes

It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

Natchez