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name: "Lorna Thayer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lorna-thayer"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 March 1919"
died: "4 June 2005"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:20:15.192096+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lorna Thayer

Actor. Born 10 March 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Died 4 June 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 March 1919, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 4 June 2005
- **Also known as:** Lorna Patricia Casey

## Biography

Lorna Thayer was an American character actress. Born Lorna Patricia Casey in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of silent screen actress Louise Gibney. She appeared in theatre, including Broadway productions, and on television as well as in films from the early 1950s onwards.

Thayer played the waitress in *Five Easy Pieces* (1970). Other film credits include *The Lusty Men* (1952), *The Andromeda Strain* (1971), *Skyjacked* (1972), *Nothing in Common* (1986) and *Frankie and Johnny* (1991). She died in 2005 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home in Woodland Hills, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Five Easy Pieces* (1970), Fi1m 88, as Waitress — [page](https://film.one/film/five-easy-pieces.md)

## Also known for

- *The Andromeda Strain* (1971), Woman (uncredited)
- *Frankie and Johnny* (1991), Flower Mart Vendor
- *CHiPs* (1977)
- *Nothing in Common* (1986), Auditioning Grandma
- *Buddy Buddy* (1981), Lady
- *The Dick Van Dyke Show* (1961)
- *The Lusty Men* (1952), Grace Burgess
- *Skyjacked* (1972), Weber's mother

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