Lila Kaye
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 7, 1929
- Died
- January 10, 2012 (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
Biography
Lila Kaye (7 November 1929 – 10 January 2012) was an English actress. She spent a number of years working in the United States, on Broadway and in television, before returning to England. She often played motherly and/or comedic characters, mostly on television, including Cathy Come Home (1966) as a staff member at a homeless shelter, and My Son Reuben (1975), co-starring Bernard Spear, as a Jewish mother and her bachelor son who jointly run a dry-cleaning business. She also appeared in films including Blind Terror (1971), The Black Panther (1977) and Quincy's Quest (1979), and found film success in later years for her performances in An American Werewolf in London (1981) as the conflicted rural barmaid trying to warn off the two doomed American backpackers, in Nuns on the Run (1990) as a formidable nun, and in Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991; an American television film), in which she played Dorothy Ireland, the real-life mother of cancer-stricken actress Jill Ireland (played by Jill Clayburgh).[1] Kaye appeared in Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989) as Mrs. Pennington, and in Dragonworld (1994) as Mrs. Cosgrove.
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Filmography
Eskimo Day
Movie · as Mother Polly
Dragonworld
Movie · as Mrs. Cosgrove
Cafe Americain
TV · as Margaret Hunt · 18 eps
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Movie · as Vi Butterfield
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
TV · as Dr. Rose Lorimer · 3 eps
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Movie · as Dorothy, Jill's mother
Nuns on the Run
Movie · as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Antonia and Jane
Movie · as Jane's Mother
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Movie · as Mrs. Pennington
Birds of a Feather
TV · as Mrs. McCarthy · 1 ep
Dear John
TV · as Audrey · 1 ep
Making Waves
Movie · as Mrs Nash
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Movie · as Lagrange
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Movie · as Ms. Houston
The Sign of Four
Movie · as Mrs Mordecai Smith
Bad Boyes
TV · as Gran · 5 eps
The Canterville Ghost
Movie · as Mrs. Umney
Camille
Movie · as Nanine
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Movie · as Bawd
Pull The Other One
TV · as Grandma · 6 eps
Mama Malone
TV · as 'Mama' Renate Malone · 13 eps
Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Mrs. Mordecai Smith · 1 ep
Ellis Island
TV · as Kathleen O'Donnell · 3 eps
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Teresa Mancini · 1 ep
The Invisible Man
TV · as Mrs Jenny Hall · 3 eps
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
TV · 10 eps
Cheers
TV · as Lillian Huxley · 1 ep
An American Werewolf in London
Movie · as Barmaid
Sredni Vashtar
Movie · as Mrs. Woolridge
Quincy's Quest
Movie · as Griselda
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
TV · as Mrs. Alexander · 6 eps
The Kitchen
Movie · as Bertha
The Black Panther
Movie
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV · as Bertha · 1 ep
A Place to Die
Movie · as Bess
King's Cross Lunch Hour
Movie · as The Manageress
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Movie · as Nancy's Mother
See No Evil
Movie · as Gypsy Mother
The Flaxton Boys
TV · as Sarah Weekes · 9 eps
The Fiction Makers
Movie · as Ma
David Copperfield
TV · as Clara Peggotty · 7 eps
Theatre 625
TV · as Romaine · 1 ep
Festival
TV · as Sophie · 1 ep
The Saint
TV · as Ma · 1 ep