Lorna Thayer
- Recitazione
- 10 marzo 1919 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 4 giugno 2005
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Paura d'amare · Flower Mart Vendor
- Niente in comune · Auditioning Grandma
- Buddy Buddy · Lady
- The Aliens Are Coming · Waitress
- Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers · Hospital Receptionist
- CHiPs
- Pon pon n. 2 · Lilly Downs
- Smoke In The Wind · Ma Mondier
- Alice Goodbody · Yvonne
- It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy · Mrs. Gibbs
- I fratelli Dion · TV Interviewer (uncredited)
- The Family Kovack · Thelma
- Il rinoceronte · Restaurant Owner
- La signora Sundance · Fanny Porter
- Il pirata dell'aria · Weber's mother
- Per 100 chili di droga · Swimming Lady
- Andromeda · Woman (uncredited)
- Cinque pezzi facili · Waitress
- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment · Widow Wycherly
- The Shakiest Gun in the West · Saloon Girl (uncredited)
- Garrison's Gorillas
- Quella strana ragazza
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- 87° squadra
- Freckles · Alice Cooper
- The Tall Man
- The Detectives
- Johnny Ringo · Mrs. Haig
- Black Saddle · Belle Bronson
- Natchez · Belle
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- The Women of Pitcairn Island · Mortua
- Playhouse 90 · Belle
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie · Mrs. Williams
- Le leggendarie imprese di Wyatt Earp
- The Beast with a Million Eyes · Carol Kelley
- La rivolta delle recluse
- Rin Tin Tin
- Medic · Lorraine Lockwood
- Jennifer · Molly
- Letter to Loretta · Christine Markham
- I Led Three Lives
- Il temerario · Grace Burgess
- Cavalcade of America · Miss Holmes
- Dragnet
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars · Irene Williams
- Le inchieste di Boston Blackie
- Lux Video Theatre · Liza