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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 10, 1919
Died
June 4, 2005
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Lorna Patricia Casey
Lorna Thayer
0.4 Popularity
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
6.8
Flower Mart Vendor
Frankie and Johnny
1991
5.8
Auditioning Grandma
Nothing in Common
1986
6.2
Lady
Buddy Buddy
1981
3.6
Waitress
The Aliens Are Coming
1980
4.7
Hospital Receptionist
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979
6.8
CHiPs
1977
4.3
Lilly Downs
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
1976
6.0
Ma Mondier
Smoke In The Wind
1975
4.4
Yvonne
Alice Goodbody
1974
1.0
Mrs. Gibbs
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974
Credits
Frankie and Johnny
as Flower Mart Vendor
1991
6.8
Nothing in Common
as Auditioning Grandma
1986
5.8
Buddy Buddy
as Lady
1981
6.2
The Aliens Are Coming
as Waitress
1980
3.6
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
as Hospital Receptionist
1979
4.7
CHiPs
1977
6.8
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
as Lilly Downs
1976
4.3
Smoke In The Wind
as Ma Mondier
1975
6.0
Alice Goodbody
as Yvonne
1974
4.4
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
as Mrs. Gibbs
1974
1.0
The Dion Brothers
as TV Interviewer (uncredited)
1974
5.3
The Family Kovack
as Thelma
1974
2.0
Rhinoceros
as Restaurant Owner
1974
5.3
Mrs. Sundance
as Fanny Porter
1974
7.5
Skyjacked
as Weber's mother
1972
6.1
Cisco Pike
as Swimming Lady
1971
5.6
The Andromeda Strain
as Woman (uncredited)
1971
7.0
Five Easy Pieces
as Waitress
1970
7.1
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
as Widow Wycherly
1969
0.0
The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1968
6.3
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
7.8
That Girl
1966
6.1
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961
7.5
87th Precinct
1961
7.5
Freckles
as Alice Cooper
1960
4.6
The Tall Man
1960
6.3
The Detectives
1959
6.1
Johnny Ringo
as Mrs. Haig
1959
5.7
Black Saddle
as Belle Bronson
1959
6.0
Natchez
1958
0.0
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
The Women of Pitcairn Island
as Mortua
1956
2.7
Playhouse 90
as Belle
1956
7.6
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
5.0
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
6.8
The Beast with a Million Eyes
as Carol Kelley
1955
3.7
Women's Prison
1955
5.7
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
6.9
Medic
as Lorraine Lockwood
1954
5.7
Jennifer
as Molly
1953
5.8
Letter to Loretta
as Christine Markham
1953
6.5
I Led Three Lives
1953
0.0
The Lusty Men
as Grace Burgess
1952
6.6
Cavalcade of America
as Miss Holmes
1952
3.5
Dragnet
1951
6.4
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Irene Williams
1951
7.2
Boston Blackie
1951
4.0
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Lux Video Theatre
as Liza
1950
6.3