Cast & creator
Lorna Thayer
Best known for Have Gun, Will Travel, Dragnet, The Dick Van Dyke Show
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.
Also known as: Lorna Patricia Casey
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1950–1991 · acting roles
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Filmography (49)
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Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Dragnet
1951
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
That Girl
1966
The Detectives
1959
The Tall Man
1960
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Mrs. Williams
1956
Playhouse 90
Belle
1956
CHiPs
1977Lux Video Theatre
Liza
1950
Black Saddle
Belle Bronson
1959
Cavalcade of America
Miss Holmes
1952
87th Precinct
1961
Boston Blackie
1951
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
Johnny Ringo
Mrs. Haig
1959
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
I Led Three Lives
1953
Letter to Loretta
Christine Markham
1953
Frankie and Johnny
Flower Mart Vendor
1991
Medic
Lorraine Lockwood
1954
The Andromeda Strain
Woman (uncredited)
1971
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Irene Williams
1951
Five Easy Pieces
Waitress
1970
Nothing in Common
Auditioning Grandma
1986
Buddy Buddy
Lady
1981
The Lusty Men
Grace Burgess
1952
The Beast with a Million Eyes
Carol Kelley
1955
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
1968
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Hospital Receptionist
1979
The Aliens Are Coming
Waitress
1980
Skyjacked
Weber's mother
1972
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
Mrs. Gibbs
1974
Alice Goodbody
Yvonne
1974
Cisco Pike
Swimming Lady
1972
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Lilly Downs
1976
Smoke In The Wind
Ma Mondier
1975
Rhinoceros
Restaurant Owner
1974
The Family Kovack
Thelma
1974
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Mortua
1956
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Widow Wycherly
1969
The Dion Brothers
TV Interviewer (uncredited)
1974
Women's Prison
1955
Jennifer
Molly
1953
Mrs. Sundance
Fanny Porter
1974
Natchez
Belle
1958
Freckles
Alice Cooper
1960