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Lorna Thayer
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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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As actor
Frankie and Johnny
Nothing in Common
Buddy Buddy
The Aliens Are Coming
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Smoke In The Wind
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
The Family Kovack
Alice Goodbody
Mrs. Sundance
Rhinoceros
The Dion Brothers
Skyjacked
Cisco Pike
The Andromeda Strain
Five Easy Pieces
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Freckles
Natchez
The Women of Pitcairn Island
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Women's Prison
Jennifer
The Lusty Men