Lorna Thayer

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

Dragnet

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

That Girl

CHiPs

The Detectives

Playhouse 90

All Movies (26)

• Frankie and Johnny1991 · as Flower Mart Vendor
• Nothing in Common1986 · as Auditioning Grandma
• Buddy Buddy1981 · as Lady
• The Aliens Are Coming1980 · as Waitress
• Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers1979 · as Hospital Receptionist
• Revenge of the Cheerleaders1976 · as Lilly Downs
• Smoke In The Wind1975 · as Ma Mondier
• Alice Goodbody1974 · as Yvonne
• It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy1974 · as Mrs. Gibbs
• The Dion Brothers1974 · as TV Interviewer (uncredited)
• The Family Kovack1974 · as Thelma
• Rhinoceros1974 · as Restaurant Owner
• Mrs. Sundance1974 · as Fanny Porter
• Skyjacked1972 · as Weber's mother
• Cisco Pike1972 · as Swimming Lady
• The Andromeda Strain1971 · as Woman (uncredited)
• Five Easy Pieces1970 · as Waitress
• Dr. Heidegger's Experiment1969 · as Widow Wycherly
• The Shakiest Gun in the West1968 · as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
• Freckles1960 · as Alice Cooper
• Natchez1958 · as Belle
• The Women of Pitcairn Island1956 · as Mortua
• The Beast with a Million Eyes1955 · as Carol Kelley
• Women's Prison1955
• Jennifer1953 · as Molly
• The Lusty Men1952 · as Grace Burgess

All TV Shows (22)

• CHiPs1977
• Garrison's Gorillas1967
• That Girl1966
• The Dick Van Dyke Show1961
• 87th Precinct1961
• The Tall Man1960
• The Detectives1959
• Johnny Ringo1959 · as Mrs. Haig
• Black Saddle1959 · as Belle Bronson
• Have Gun, Will Travel1957
• Playhouse 901956 · as Belle
• The Adventures of Jim Bowie1956
• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp1955
• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin1954
• Medic1954 · as Lorraine Lockwood
• Letter to Loretta1953 · as Christine Markham
• I Led Three Lives1953
• Cavalcade of America1952 · as Miss Holmes
• Dragnet1951
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Irene Williams
• Boston Blackie1951
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Liza