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.
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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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16019435
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Filmography (Movies)
Eskimo Day
Character:Mother Polly
Release Date:04/04/1996
Dragonworld
Character:Mrs. Cosgrove
Release Date:27/07/1994
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Character:Vi Butterfield
Release Date:27/12/1992
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Character:Dorothy, Jill's mother
Release Date:19/05/1991
Antonia and Jane
Character:Jane's Mother
Release Date:18/07/1990
Nuns on the Run
Character:Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Release Date:16/03/1990
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Character:Mrs. Pennington
Release Date:24/02/1989
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Character:Lagrange
Release Date:15/07/1987
The Sign of Four
Character:Mrs Mordecai Smith
Release Date:07/03/1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Character:Ms. Houston
Release Date:10/01/1987
Making Waves
Character:Mrs Nash
Release Date:01/01/1987
The Canterville Ghost
Character:Mrs. Umney
Release Date:31/12/1986
Camille
Character:Nanine
Release Date:11/12/1984
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Character:Bawd
Release Date:08/12/1984
Sredni Vashtar
Character:Mrs. Woolridge
Release Date:01/09/1981
An American Werewolf in London
Character:Barmaid
Release Date:21/08/1981
Quincy's Quest
Character:Griselda
Release Date:24/12/1979
The Black Panther
Character:
Release Date:26/12/1977
The Kitchen
Character:Bertha
Release Date:02/11/1977
A Place to Die
Character:Bess
Release Date:26/05/1973
King's Cross Lunch Hour
Character:The Manageress
Release Date:29/05/1972
See No Evil
Character:Gypsy Mother
Release Date:02/09/1971
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Character:Nancy's Mother
Release Date:01/09/1971
The Fiction Makers
Character:Ma
Release Date:08/12/1968
Television Appearances
Cafe Americain
Character:Margaret Hunt
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Character:Dr. Rose Lorimer
Birds of a Feather
Character:Mrs. McCarthy
Dear John
Character:Audrey
Ellis Island
Character:Kathleen O'Donnell
Murder, She Wrote
Character:Teresa Mancini
The Invisible Man
Character:Mrs Jenny Hall
Pull The Other One
Character:Grandma
Sherlock Holmes
Character:Mrs. Mordecai Smith
Mama Malone
Character:'Mama' Renate Malone
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Character:
Cheers
Character:Lillian Huxley
BBC2 Play of the Week
Character:Bertha
The Flaxton Boys
Character:Sarah Weekes
David Copperfield
Character:Clara Peggotty
Theatre 625
Character:Romaine
Festival
Character:Sophie
The Saint
Character:Ma
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