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