Lila Kaye
Known for Acting · 42 credits
- Born
- 1929-11-07
- Died
- 2012-01-10
- Place of birth
- Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
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.
Known For
TV Shows (18)
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Teresa Mancini
Cheers
1982
as Lillian Huxley
The Saint
1962
as Ma
Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Mrs. Mordecai Smith
Theatre 625
1964
as Romaine
Birds of a Feather
1989
as Mrs. McCarthy
Dear John
1988
as Audrey
Festival
1963
as Sophie
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Bertha
Cafe Americain
1993
as Margaret Hunt
David Copperfield
1966
as Clara Peggotty
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Ellis Island
1984
as Kathleen O'Donnell
Mama Malone
1984
as 'Mama' Renate Malone
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
as Dr. Rose Lorimer
The Flaxton Boys
1969
as Sarah Weekes
The Invisible Man
1984
as Mrs Jenny Hall
Pull The Other One
1984
as Grandma
Movies (24)
An American Werewolf in London
1981
as Barmaid
Nuns on the Run
1990
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984
as Bawd
See No Evil
1971
as Gypsy Mother
The Sign of Four
1987
as Mrs Mordecai Smith
The Black Panther
1977
Camille
1984
as Nanine
The Fiction Makers
1968
as Ma
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
1991
as Dorothy, Jill's mother
The Canterville Ghost
1986
as Mrs. Umney
Dragonworld
1994
as Mrs. Cosgrove
Quincy's Quest
1979
as Griselda
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
as Vi Butterfield
Antonia and Jane
1990
as Jane's Mother
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
1987
as Lagrange
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
1989
as Mrs. Pennington
Eskimo Day
1996
as Mother Polly
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
as Ms. Houston
A Place to Die
1973
as Bess
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
1971
as Nancy's Mother
The Kitchen
1977
as Bertha
Making Waves
1987
as Mrs Nash
Sredni Vashtar
1981
as Mrs. Woolridge
King's Cross Lunch Hour
1972
as The Manageress
About Lila Kaye
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 (1… With 42 credits spanning from 1962 to 1996, Lila Kaye has appeared in 24 films and 18 TV shows.
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Most Popular Lila Kaye Movies
- An American Werewolf in London (1981) — as Barmaid
- Nuns on the Run (1990) — as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984) — as Bawd
- See No Evil (1971) — as Gypsy Mother
- The Sign of Four (1987) — as Mrs Mordecai Smith
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