Lila Kaye
Born
November 7, 1929
Died
January 10, 2012 (82 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
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.
Known For
Eskimo Day
Mother Polly
1996
Dragonworld
Mrs. Cosgrove
1994
Cafe Americain
Margaret Hunt · (18 episodes)
1993
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Vi Butterfield
1992
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Dorothy, Jill's mother
1991
Nuns on the Run
Sister Mary of the Annunciation
1990
Antonia and Jane
Jane's Mother
1990
Birds of a Feather
Mrs. McCarthy · (1 episode)
1989
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Mrs. Pennington
1989
Dear John
Audrey · (1 episode)
1988
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Lagrange
1987
The Sign of Four
Mrs Mordecai Smith
1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Ms. Houston
1987
Making Waves
Mrs Nash
1987
The Canterville Ghost
Mrs. Umney
1986
Camille
Nanine
1984
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Bawd
1984
Ellis Island
Kathleen O'Donnell · (3 episodes)
1984
Murder, She Wrote
Teresa Mancini · (1 episode)
1984
The Invisible Man
(6 episodes)
1984
Pull The Other One
Grandma · (6 episodes)
1984
Sherlock Holmes
Mrs. Mordecai Smith · (1 episode)
1984
Mama Malone
'Mama' Renate Malone · (13 episodes)
1984
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
(10 episodes)
1982
Cheers
Lillian Huxley · (1 episode)
1982
Sredni Vashtar
Mrs. Woolridge
1981
An American Werewolf in London
Barmaid
1981
Quincy's Quest
Mrs Clause
1979
The Black Panther
1977
The Kitchen
Bertha
1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
Bertha · (1 episode)
1977
A Place to Die
Bess
1973
See No Evil
Gypsy Mother
1971
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Nancy's Mother
1971
The Flaxton Boys
Sarah Weekes · (13 episodes)
1969
The Fiction Makers
Ma
1968
David Copperfield
Clara Peggotty · (7 episodes)
1966
Festival
Sophie · (1 episode)
1963
The Saint
Ma · (1 episode)
1962