Acting credits
47
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Lorna Thayer
Acting
Career Snapshot
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0.4
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Movies: 26Series: 21
TMDB ID: 95787
IMDb ID: nm0857213
Known for: Acting
Born: March 10, 1919
Died: June 4, 2005
Age: 86
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1951 - 1991
Years active: 41
Average TMDB rating: 6.3
Wikidata: Q11837369
Also known as
Lorna Patricia Casey
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Lorna Thayer.
6.8
Frankie and Johnny
as Flower Mart Vendor
1991 Movie
5.8
Nothing in Common
as Auditioning Grandma
1986 Movie
6.1
Buddy Buddy
as Lady
1981 Movie
3.6
The Aliens Are Coming
as Waitress
1980 Movie
4.7
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
as Hospital Receptionist
1979 Movie
4.3
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
as Lilly Downs
1976 Movie
6.0
Smoke In The Wind
as Ma Mondier
1975 Movie
4.4
Alice Goodbody
as Yvonne
1974 Movie
1.0
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
as Mrs. Gibbs
1974 Movie
5.3
The Dion Brothers
as TV Interviewer (uncredited)
1974 Movie
2.0
The Family Kovack
as Thelma
1974 Movie
5.3
Rhinoceros
as Restaurant Owner
1974 Movie
7.5
Mrs. Sundance
as Fanny Porter
1974 Movie
6.1
Skyjacked
as Weber's mother
1972 Movie
5.6
Cisco Pike
as Swimming Lady
1971 Movie
7.0
The Andromeda Strain
as Woman (uncredited)
1971 Movie
7.1
Five Easy Pieces
as Waitress
1970 Movie
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
as Widow Wycherly
1969 Movie
6.3
The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1968 Movie
4.6
Freckles
as Alice Cooper
1960 Movie
Natchez
as Belle
1958 Movie
2.7
The Women of Pitcairn Island
as Mortua
1956 Movie
3.7
The Beast with a Million Eyes
as Carol Kelley
1955 Movie
5.7
Women's Prison
1955 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Lorna Thayer.
6.8
CHiPs
1 eps
1977 Series
7.8
Garrison's Gorillas
1 eps
1967 Series
6.1
That Girl
1 eps
1966 Series
7.5
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1 eps
1961 Series
7.5
87th Precinct
1 eps
1961 Series
6.3
The Tall Man
1 eps
1960 Series
6.1
The Detectives
1 eps
1959 Series
5.7
Johnny Ringo
as Mrs. Haig • 1 eps
1959 Series
6.0
Black Saddle
as Belle Bronson • 1 eps
1959 Series
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
4 eps
1957 Series
7.6
Playhouse 90
as Belle • 1 eps
1956 Series
5.0
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
4 eps
1956 Series
6.8
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
2 eps
1955 Series
6.9
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1 eps
1954 Series
5.7
Medic
as Lorraine Lockwood • 1 eps
1954 Series
6.5
Letter to Loretta
as Christine Markham • 1 eps
1953 Series
I Led Three Lives
1 eps
1953 Series
3.5
Cavalcade of America
as Miss Holmes • 1 eps
1952 Series
6.4
Dragnet
2 eps
1951 Series
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Irene Williams • 1 eps
1951 Series
4.0
Boston Blackie
1 eps
1951 Series