Biography
Lila Kaye (7 November 1929 β 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). Kaye appeared in Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989) as Mrs. Pennington, and in Dragonworld (1994) as Mrs. Cosgrove.
Filmography
all 34
Movies 22
TV Shows 12
Eskimo Day (1996)
Dragonworld (1994)
Cafe Americain (1993)
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991)
Nuns on the Run (1990)
Antonia and Jane (1990)
Birds of a Feather (1989)
Bodger and Badger (1989)
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)
The Trial of Klaus Barbie (1987)
The Sign of Four (1987)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
Making Waves (1987)
The Canterville Ghost (1986)
Camille (1984)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
Ellis Island (1984)
The Invisible Man (1984)
Pull The Other One (1984)
Sherlock Holmes (1984)
Mama Malone (1984)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
Sredni Vashtar (1981)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Quincy's Quest (1979)
The Black Panther (1977)
A Place to Die (1973)
See No Evil (1971)
Mr. Horatio Knibbles (1971)
The Flaxton Boys (1969)
The Fiction Makers (1968)
David Copperfield (1966)
The Saint (1962)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1929-11-07
Deathday2012-01-10 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceMiddlesbrough, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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