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](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/591181-eskimo-day.jpg)
Eskimo Day (1996)
![Dragonworld](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/110549-dragonworld.jpg)
Dragonworld (1994)
![Cafe Americain](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/477175-cafe-americain.jpg)
Cafe Americain (1993)
![Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/75515-mrs-arris-goes-to-paris.jpg)
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
![Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/45246-reason-for-living-the-jill-ireland-story.jpg)
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991)
![Nuns on the Run](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/24108-nuns-on-the-run.jpg)
Nuns on the Run (1990)
![Antonia and Jane](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/30655-antonia-and-jane.jpg)
Antonia and Jane (1990)
![Birds of a Feather](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/148536-birds-of-a-feather.jpg)
Birds of a Feather (1989)
![Bodger and Badger](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/t/o.jpg)
Bodger and Badger (1989)
![Bert Rigby, You're a Fool](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/52157-bert-rigby-you-re-a-fool.jpg)
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)
![The Sign of Four](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/6384-the-sign-of-four.jpg)
The Sign of Four (1987)
![The Return of Sherlock Holmes](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/6390-the-return-of-sherlock-holmes.jpg)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
![Making Waves](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/499633-making-waves.jpg)
Making Waves (1987)
![The Canterville Ghost](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/50086-the-canterville-ghost.jpg)
The Canterville Ghost (1986)
![Camille](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/30614-camille.jpg)
Camille (1984)
![Ellis Island](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/28109-ellis-island.jpg)
Ellis Island (1984)
![Pull The Other One](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/t/o.jpg)
Pull The Other One (1984)
![Sherlock Holmes](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/833-sherlock-holmes.jpg)
Sherlock Holmes (1984)
![Mama Malone](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/591955-mama-malone.jpg)
Mama Malone (1984)
![The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/80939-the-life-and-adventures-of-nicholas-nickleby.jpg)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
![Sredni Vashtar](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/281016-sredni-vashtar.jpg)
Sredni Vashtar (1981)
![Quincy's Quest](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/69466-quincy-s-quest.jpg)
Quincy's Quest (1979)
![See No Evil](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/93110-see-no-evil.jpg)
See No Evil (1971)
![Mr. Horatio Knibbles](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/236896-mr-horatio-knibbles.jpg)
Mr. Horatio Knibbles (1971)
![The Flaxton Boys](https://images.moviefit.me/t/o/549399-the-flaxton-boys.jpg)
The Flaxton Boys (1969)
![David Copperfield](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/t/o.jpg)
David Copperfield (1966)
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![Lila Kaye](https://images.moviefit.me/p/o/37258-lila-kaye.jpg)
Information
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1929-11-07
Deathday2012-01-10 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceMiddlesbrough, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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