
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.069 |
Birthday | 1919-03-10 |
Place of Birth | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Also Known As | Lorna Patricia Casey, |

1970

Five Easy Pieces
7.109/527
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and oth...
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Five Easy Pieces

1955

The Beast with a Million Eyes
3.7/36
At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to s...
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The Beast with a Million Eyes

1986

Nothing in Common
5.8/124
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
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Nothing in Common

1952

The Lusty Men
6.6/87
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of...
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The Lusty Men

1981

Buddy Buddy
6.2/100
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants...
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Buddy Buddy

1991

Frankie and Johnny
6.756/583
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fl...
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Frankie and Johnny

1972

Skyjacked
6.2/45
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.
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Skyjacked

1958

Natchez
0/0
A Civil War veteran returns home to find his father has become a social pariah.
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Natchez

1974

It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1/1
When Harry Walters runs out of gas, he gets picked up by a beautiful young woman. But when she pulls a gun on him and orders him to take his clothes o...
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It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

1960

Freckles
4.6/5
A young man with only one hand gets a job at a timber camp and falls for his boss's daughter.
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Freckles

1956

The Women of Pitcairn Island
3.5/2
The widows and children of survivors of the H.M.S. Bounty rule Pitcairn Island, fighting off sailors and intruders.
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The Women of Pitcairn Island

1969

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
0/0
Dr. Heidegger invites four of his respected friends to try out the elixir of youth.
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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

1953

Jennifer
5.692/13
A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.
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Jennifer

1974

The Family Kovack
0/0
A tightly-knit family headed by a beleaguered Chicago widow rallies behind the eldest son when he is charged with bribing a city health department ins...
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The Family Kovack

1980

The Aliens Are Coming
3.9/6
A young astrophysicist searches for sinister extraterrestrials looking for sanctuary for their comrades by possessing the bodies of humans.
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The Aliens Are Coming

1979

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
5/2
This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, J...
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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

1974

Alice Goodbody
4.364/11
Sharon Kelly plays a naive waitress who sleeps her ways to bigger and bigger roles in a musical adaptation of Julius Caesar, only to suffer some form...
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Alice Goodbody

1976

Revenge of the Cheerleaders
4.486/35
There's shakin', quakin' and plenty of booty to be enjoyed when the perky gals from Aloha High School shimmy their groove things in this red-hot seque...
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Revenge of the Cheerleaders

1968

The Shakiest Gun in the West
6.2/44
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cu...
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The Shakiest Gun in the West

1974

Mrs. Sundance
7.5/2
The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run, with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that Sundance may still be alive.
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Mrs. Sundance

1975

Smoke In The Wind
6/1
The Civil War is over but in the Ozarks of Arkansas people are not ready to forgive and forget. The Mondier brothers have returned from fighting for t...
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Smoke In The Wind

1974

Rhinoceros
5.4/13
A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhin...
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Rhinoceros

1972

Cisco Pike
5.7/34
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.
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Cisco Pike

1955

Women's Prison
5.7/18
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
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