Lorna Thayer
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.
48 acting credits
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Dragnet
1951
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961
CHiPs
1977
That Girl
1966
The Detectives
1959
Playhouse 90
1956
Black Saddle
1959
Cavalcade of America
1952
The Tall Man
1960
Johnny Ringo
1959
Lux Video Theatre
1950
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
87th Precinct
1961
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
Boston Blackie
1951
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
I Led Three Lives
1953
Letter to Loretta
1953
Medic
1954
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
The Andromeda Strain
1971
Frankie and Johnny
1991
Five Easy Pieces
1970
Nothing in Common
1986
Cisco Pike
1972
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955
The Lusty Men
1952
Skyjacked
1972
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979
Buddy Buddy
1981
Women's Prison
1955
The Aliens Are Coming
1980
Mrs. Sundance
1974
The Women of Pitcairn Island
1956
The Dion Brothers
1974
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
1976
Freckles
1960
Rhinoceros
1974
Jennifer
1953
Natchez
1958
Smoke In The Wind
1975
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
1969
The Family Kovack
1974
Alice Goodbody
1974