Lila Kaye

Lila Kaye

1929-11-07

Biography

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.

Also appears in

An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London

7.4

The Black Panther

The Black Panther

5.8

Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool

Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool

5.6

The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

7.3

See No Evil

See No Evil

6.5

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

7.0

Nuns on the Run

Nuns on the Run

5.8

The Fiction Makers

The Fiction Makers

7.2

Quincy’s Quest

Quincy’s Quest

5.5

Dragonworld

Dragonworld

5.0

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

6.6

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

5.2

Mrs. ’Arris Goes to Paris

Mrs. ’Arris Goes to Paris

8.0

Camille

Camille

5.7

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

7.0

Eskimo Day

Eskimo Day

8.0

A Place to Die

A Place to Die

10.0

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

5.7

Antonia and Jane

Antonia and Jane

5.5

The Kitchen

The Kitchen

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