Lila Kaye

Known for ActingBorn 1929-11-07Died 2012-01-10Worthing, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

A Place to Die

Sherlock Holmes

Eskimo Day

Mama Malone

Festival

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Cheers

Murder, She Wrote

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

The Sign of Four

An American Werewolf in London

The Invisible Man

The Saint

Sredni Vashtar

Cafe Americain

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

The Fiction Makers

Theatre 625

BBC2 Play of the Week

King's Cross Lunch Hour

Making Waves

The Canterville Ghost

See No Evil

David Copperfield

Birds of a Feather

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Quincy's Quest

Nuns on the Run

The Flaxton Boys

The Black Panther

Dear John

Camille

Antonia and Jane

Dragonworld

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Ellis Island

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

The Trial of Klaus Barbie

Pull The Other One

The Kitchen