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Lorna Thayer is a Actor American born on 10 march 1919 at Boston (USA)
Lorna Thayer (March 10, 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 for which she is most likely to be remembered. The scene has come to be known as the "chicken salad scene".
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Lorna Thayer
Birth name Lorna Patricia Casey
Nationality USA
Birth 10 march 1919 at Boston (USA)
Death 4 june 2005 (at 86 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 10 march 1919 at Boston (USA)
Death 4 june 2005 (at 86 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Lorna Thayer (March 10, 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 for which she is most likely to be remembered. The scene has come to be known as the "chicken salad scene".
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Frankie and Johnny (1991)
, 1h58Directed by Garry Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Héctor Elizondo, Nathan Lane, Kate Nelligan, Harvey Miller
Roles Flower Mart Vendor
Rating67%
Johnny (Pacino) is a middle-aged man, just released from prison who's looking for a job. He's hired as a short-order cook in a local diner where he meets Frankie, a pretty but emotionally damaged waitress who is trying to move on with her life after getting out of an abusive relationship just a couple years prior to the start of the film. Her only friends seem to be her friendly gay neighbor Tim (Lane) and her fellow waitresses at the diner. Johnny attempts to win Frankie's heart but quickly realizes it will be quite a challenge in this true-to-life romantic dramedy.
Nothing in Common (1986)
, 1h58Directed by Garry Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint, Bess Armstrong, Héctor Elizondo, Barry Corbin
Roles Auditioning Grandma
Rating58%
Happy-go-lucky advertising executive David Basner (Tom Hanks), who recently got a promotion at his Chicago ad agency, returns to work from a vacation. He is carefree until his parents split up after 36 years of marriage. Out of the blue, he must care for his aging, bitter father Max (Jackie Gleason), as well as support his emotionally fragile mother Lorraine (Eva Marie Saint). Max has also just been fired from his 35-year career in the garment industry. At work, David is developing a commercial for Colonial Airlines, owned by the rich and bullish Andrew Woolridge (Barry Corbin). A successful ad campaign would likely gain David a promotion to partner in his company. David develops a relationship with Woolridge's daughter, no-nonsense Cheryl Ann Wayne (Sela Ward). His father is well aware of David's playboy nature.
Buddy Buddy (1981)
, 1h32Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Time travel films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski, Dana Elcar, Joan Shawlee
Roles Lady
Rating64%
Hitman Trabucco has been hired to eliminate Rudy "Disco" Gambola before he testifies against fellow members of the Mob, but completing the contract becomes problematic once he encounters suicidal Victor Clooney, an emotionally disturbed television censor staying in the room adjacent to his in the Ramona Hotel in Riverside, California.
Smoke In The Wind (1975)
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors John Ashley, Walter Brennan, John Russell, Myron Daniel Healey, Henry Kingi, Dan White
Roles Ma Mondier
Rating60%
The War Between the States has just ended as the action in this work begins, following five Union soldiers as they return to their homes in the Ozarks of northern Arkansas, matter-of-factly planning a resumption of their pre-War existences. However, many residents from the village of Winslow and its surrounding region are averse to offering a helping hand to Yankees, Arkansas having been a member of the Confederacy. Nonetheless, some Winslow citizens are working to close the nation's divisiveness and it is to them that the returning veterans must look for support. Ongoing animosity between both factions in a recent war provides interesting material for a film; unfortunately, this one is not composed well with a result that it fails to develop interest for viewers. Veteran director of Westerns Joseph Kane is called from retirement as an attempt to rescue this faltering production, but he is not enough to offset a stale script and a great deal of deficient acting. Although it should properly be designated as a Southern rather than as a Western, some old hands of the latter genre are present, including Walter Brennan in his last feature film outing, John Russell, Myron Healey, and Dan White, each of whom plays creditably, although unavailingly, given the screenplay shortcomings. Locals, along with stuntmen, fill many of the parts, while members of a remarkable quartet composed of the lead females either are barely able to read their lines or overact to an absurd extent, sure signs of too few takes and a lack of direction. Cinematographer Mario Tosi creates a visually sensuous environment, one that correctly utilizes natural light; the sound mixing, however, is eccentric. The Ozark location is extraordinarily beautiful, and Tosi takes full advantage of its luxuriance so that in each scene, notwithstanding the action's failure to consistently draw in the viewer, there remains much to enjoy in the pictoral sense; 'tis less than providential that for Kane's swan song, the landscape steals the show.
Rhinoceros (1974)
, 1h41Directed by Tom O'Horgan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Karen Black, Joe Silver, Marilyn Chris, Howard Morton
Roles Restaurant Owner
Rating57%
The residents of a large town are inexplicably turning into rhinoceroses. Stanley (Gene Wilder), a mild-mannered office clerk, watches the bizarre transformations from a bemused distance. But soon the strange occurrences invade his personal space, as his neighbor and best friend John (Zero Mostel) and his girlfriend Daisy (Karen Black) become part of the human-into-rhinoceros metamorphosis that is taking place. Eventually, Stanley realizes that he may be the only human left amidst the new rhinoceros majority.
Cisco Pike (1972)
, 1h35Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Gene Hackman, Karen Black, Harry Dean Stanton, Viva, Roscoe Lee Browne
Roles Swimming Lady
Rating64%
The film centers on Cisco Pike (played by Kris Kristofferson), an out of luck and out of work musician, and Sergeant Leo Holland (played by Gene Hackman). Cisco is a former drug dealer who has been busted several times by Sgt. Holland, and one night Holland comes to the door and demands that Cisco move a large amount of marijuana for him or suffer jail. He has several misadventures selling the marijuana, meets up with Doug Sahm at a recording studio, has his friend Jesse Dupree visit (played by Harry Dean Stanton, billed as H.D. Stanton for this film), meets a pregnant rich girl and her friend, and tries to make good with the Sergeant in the time allotted to him.
Skyjacked (1972)
, 1h41Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Films about hijackings
Actors Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain, Walter Pidgeon
Roles Weber's mother
Rating57%
During a routine flight to Minneapolis, a passenger (Susan Dey) aboard Global Airways Flight 502, a Boeing 707, discovers a bomb threat written on the mirror of one of the first-class bathrooms. A second threat is soon found left on a napkin in a galley. Captain Hank O'Hara (Charlton Heston) takes the cryptic threats seriously and follows the instructions -- "Bomb on plane divert to Anchorage Alaska. No Joke, No Tricks. Death"—by changing course for Alaska. To avoid an explosive decompression if a bomb goes off, he flies at lower altitude, increasing fuel consumption.
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
, 1h38Directed by Bob Rafelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers, Lois Smith, Billy "Green" Bush
Roles Waitress
Rating73%
Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) works in a California oil field (shot in and around the city of Taft in the San Joaquin Valley) with his friend Elton (Billy "Green" Bush), who has a wife and baby son. Most of Bobby's time is spent with his waitress girlfriend, Rayette (Karen Black), who has dreams of singing country music, or in the company of Elton, with whom he bowls, gets drunk, and has sex with other women. Bobby has evidently not told Elton that he is a former classical pianist who comes from an eccentric family of musicians.
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
, 1h41Directed by Alan Rafkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Burt Mustin, Don "Red" Barry, Ruth McDevitt
Roles Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Rating62%
Jesse W. Haywood graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. As a "city slicker", he finds himself bungling in a new environment.
, 1h44Directed by Bernard Girard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Robert Webber
Rating58%
Con man Eli Kotch (James Coburn) charms his way into a parole by playing on the emotions of a pretty psychologist (Marian McCargo), but drops her at the first opportunity to move around the country, romancing women and then stealing their possessions, or those of their employers. He's made a down payment on the blueprints to a bank at Los Angeles International Airport, but needs to raise $85,000 to complete the purchase.
Freckles (1960)
, 1h25Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Carol Christensen, Jack Lambert, Roy Barcroft, Lorna Thayer, Ken Curtis, John Eldredge
Roles Alice Cooper
Rating55%
Handicapped by a missing hand since childhood, Freckles (Martin West) works for timber baron John McLean (Roy Barcroft). He rounds up a gang of lumber thieves headed by Duncan (Jack Lambert).
The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956)
, 1h12Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Lynn Bari, James Craig, John Smith, Sue England, Arleen Whelan, Carol Thurston
Roles Mortua
Rating61%
Nearly twenty years after the Bounty mutineers landed on Pitcairn Island, the last survivor has died leaving only their local-born widows and children. Tensions arise on the island when a fresh load of shipwrecked sailors arrive.
, 1h15Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Paul Birch, Dick Sargent, Lorna Thayer, Chester Conklin
Roles Carol Kelley
Rating37%
The isolated Kelley family struggle with their small farm in a bleak landscape. A mysterious plane crash happens nearby. Then wild and domesticated animals and finally their handyman turn on the family and attack. It turns out a space alien (the beast of the title) has taken over the minds of the lesser animals, working its way up to controlling humans as part of a plan to conquer the world. In the end, the family bond together, unite against the alien and their love conquers all.
Women's Prison (1955)
, 1h19Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Audrey Totter, Cleo Moore, Phyllis Thaxter, Howard Duff
Rating64%
A ruthless superintendent of a prison, Amelia van Zandt, makes life hell for the female inmates. Her rules are rigid and she makes no exceptions.
Jennifer (1953)
, 1h13Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Robert Nichols, Ned Glass, Russ Conway, Kitty McHugh
Roles Molly
Rating58%
Agnes Langley (Ida Lupino) is down on her luck and is hired by Lorna Gale (Mary Shipp) to replace the "missing" Jennifer as caretaker for the currently mysterious Southern California unoccupied estate. Langley finds a diary and becomes obsessed with Jennifer and her "disappearance". She takes on a mission to find out what actually happened to the other woman.