
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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Acting (26 movies)

Five Easy Pieces
1970

The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955

Nothing in Common
1986

The Lusty Men
1952

Buddy Buddy
1981

Frankie and Johnny
1991

Skyjacked
1972

Natchez
1958

It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974

Freckles
1960

The Women of Pitcairn Island
1956

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
1969

Jennifer
1953

The Family Kovack
1974

The Aliens Are Coming
1980

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979

Alice Goodbody
1974

Revenge of the Cheerleaders
1976

The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968

Mrs. Sundance
1974

Smoke In The Wind
1975

Rhinoceros
1974

Cisco Pike
1971

Women's Prison
1955

The Dion Brothers
1974

The Andromeda Strain
1971
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