Lila Kaye
Acting
Born: 1929-11-07 in 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
Murder, She Wrote
Teresa Mancini
Cheers
Lillian Huxley
Sherlock Holmes
Mrs. Mordecai Smith
The Saint
Ma
Dear John
Audrey
Theatre 625
Romaine
Birds of a Feather
Mrs. McCarthy
An American Werewolf in London
Barmaid
Cafe Americain
Margaret Hunt
BBC2 Play of the Week
Bertha
Bad Boyes
Gran
Ellis Island
Kathleen O'Donnell
Mama Malone
'Mama' Renate Malone
See No Evil
Gypsy Mother
The Flaxton Boys
Sarah Weekes
The Sign of Four
Mrs Mordecai Smith
The Invisible Man
Mrs Jenny Hall
Nuns on the Run
Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Dr. Rose Lorimer
Camille
Nanine
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Canterville Ghost
Mrs. Umney
Antonia and Jane
Jane's Mother
Eskimo Day
Mother Polly
The Black Panther
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Ms. Houston
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Vi Butterfield
Dragonworld
Mrs. Cosgrove
The Fiction Makers
Ma
Quincy's Quest
Griselda
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Mrs. Pennington
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Dorothy, Jill's mother
The Kitchen
Bertha
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Nancy's Mother
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Bawd