Lorna Thayer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 10, 1919
- Died
- June 4, 2005 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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
Movie · as Flower Mart Vendor
Nothing in Common
Movie · as Auditioning Grandma
Buddy Buddy
Movie · as Lady
The Aliens Are Coming
Movie · as Waitress
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Movie · as Hospital Receptionist
CHiPs
TV · 1 ep
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Movie · as Lilly Downs
Smoke In The Wind
Movie · as Ma Mondier
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
Movie · as Mrs. Gibbs
The Family Kovack
Movie · as Thelma
Alice Goodbody
Movie · as Yvonne
Mrs. Sundance
Movie · as Fanny Porter
Rhinoceros
Movie · as Restaurant Owner
The Dion Brothers
Movie · as TV Interviewer (uncredited)
Skyjacked
Movie · as Weber's mother
Cisco Pike
Movie · as Swimming Lady
The Andromeda Strain
Movie · as Woman (uncredited)
Five Easy Pieces
Movie · as Waitress
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Movie · as Widow Wycherly
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Movie · as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Garrison's Gorillas
TV · 1 ep
That Girl
TV · 1 ep
The Dick Van Dyke Show
TV · 1 ep
87th Precinct
TV · 1 ep
Freckles
Movie · as Alice Cooper
The Tall Man
TV · 1 ep
Johnny Ringo
TV · as Mrs. Haig · 1 ep
Black Saddle
TV · as Belle Bronson · 1 ep
The Detectives
TV · 1 ep
Natchez
Movie · as Belle
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · 4 eps
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Movie · as Mortua
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV · as Mrs. Williams · 3 eps
Playhouse 90
TV · as Belle · 1 ep
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Movie · as Carol Kelley
Women's Prison
Movie
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV · 2 eps
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV · 1 ep
Medic
TV · as Lorraine Lockwood · 1 ep
Jennifer
Movie · as Molly
I Led Three Lives
TV · 1 ep
Letter to Loretta
TV · as Christine Markham · 1 ep
The Lusty Men
Movie · as Grace Burgess
Cavalcade of America
TV · as Miss Holmes · 1 ep
Dragnet
TV · 2 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Irene Williams · 1 ep
Boston Blackie
TV · 1 ep
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Liza · 1 ep