Lorna Thayer
Biography
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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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Full filmography
- Dragnet (1951)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
- Have Gun, Will Travel (1957)
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)
- CHiPs (1977)
- That Girl (1966)
- Playhouse 90 (1956) as Belle
- Johnny Ringo (1959) as Mrs. Haig
- The Detectives (1959)
- Black Saddle (1959) as Belle Bronson
- 87th Precinct (1961)
- The Tall Man (1960)
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)
- Garrison's Gorillas (1967)
- Lux Video Theatre (1950) as Liza
- Cavalcade of America (1952) as Miss Holmes
- Boston Blackie (1951)
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954)
- Medic (1954) as Lorraine Lockwood
- I Led Three Lives (1953)
- Letter to Loretta (1953) as Christine Markham
- The Andromeda Strain (1971) as Woman (uncredited)
- Frankie and Johnny (1991) as Flower Mart Vendor
- Five Easy Pieces (1970) as Waitress