Highest rated movie: Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Lowest rated movie: The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
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Movies starring Lorna Thayer have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
Five Easy Pieces - released in 1970 - is Lorna Thayer's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 505 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Lorna Thayer is The Beast with a Million Eyes - released in 1955 - with a score of 28% based on 10 reviews.
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.
Lorna Thayer has acted in films with Karen Black, Héctor Elizondo, Tracy Reiner and Ken Swofford.
Lorna Thayer has worked with these film directors: Garry Marshall, Roger Corman, Billy Wilder and Robert Wise.
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