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Lorna Thayer
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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 ac…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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1991
Frankie and Johnny
Movie Flower Mart Vendor
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1986
Nothing in Common
Movie Auditioning Grandma
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1981
Buddy Buddy
Movie Lady
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1980
The Aliens Are Coming
Movie Waitress
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1979
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Movie Hospital Receptionist
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1977
CHiPs
TV show
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1976
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Movie Lilly Downs
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1975
Smoke In The Wind
Movie Ma Mondier
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1974
Alice Goodbody
Movie Yvonne
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1974
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
Movie Mrs. Gibbs
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1974
The Dion Brothers
Movie TV Interviewer (uncredited)
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1974
The Family Kovack
Movie Thelma
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1974
Rhinoceros
Movie Restaurant Owner
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1974
Mrs. Sundance
Movie Fanny Porter
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1972
Skyjacked
Movie Weber's mother
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1972
Cisco Pike
Movie Swimming Lady
More credits
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1971
The Andromeda Strain
Movie Woman (uncredited)
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1970
Five Easy Pieces
Movie Waitress
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1969
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Movie Widow Wycherly
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1968
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Movie Saloon Girl (uncredited)
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1967
Garrison's Gorillas
TV show
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1966
That Girl
TV show
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1961
The Dick Van Dyke Show
TV show
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1961
87th Precinct
TV show
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1960
Freckles
Movie Alice Cooper
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1960
The Tall Man
TV show
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1959
The Detectives
TV show
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1959
Johnny Ringo
TV show Mrs. Haig
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1959
Black Saddle
TV show Belle Bronson
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1958
Natchez
Movie Belle
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1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV show
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1956
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Movie Mortua
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1956
Playhouse 90
TV show Belle
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1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV show
- 1955
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1955
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Movie Carol Kelley
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1955
Women's Prison
Movie
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1954
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV show
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1954
Medic
TV show Lorraine Lockwood
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1953
Jennifer
Movie Molly
