1919-03-10 ( 106 years old ) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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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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Movies
Frankie and Johnny
1991-10-11
Nothing in Common
1986-07-29
Buddy Buddy
1981-04-02
The Aliens Are Coming
1980-03-02
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979-02-10
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
1976-05-01
Smoke In The Wind
1975-04-01
Alice Goodbody
1974-12-01
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974-11-19
The Dion Brothers
1974-06-16
The Family Kovack
1974-04-05
Rhinoceros
1974-01-21
Mrs. Sundance
1974-01-15
Skyjacked
1972-05-24
Cisco Pike
1971-11-02
Five Easy Pieces
1970-09-12
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
1969-01-01
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968-07-10
Freckles
1960-10-19
Natchez
1958-05-29
The Women of Pitcairn Island
1956-12-01
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955-06-15
Women's Prison
1955-02-01
Jennifer
1953-10-25
The Lusty Men
1952-10-24
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