
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 (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
Credits
- 1996 ·Eskimo Dayas Mother Polly
- 1994 ·Dragonworldas Mrs. Cosgrove
- 1993 ·Cafe Americainas Margaret Hunt
- 1992 ·Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Parisas Vi BUtterfield
- 1991 ·Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Storyas Dorothy, Jill's mother
- 1990 ·Nuns on the Runas Sister Mary of the Annunciation
- 1990 ·Antonia and Janeas Jane's Mother
- 1989 ·Birds of a Featheras Mrs. McCarthy
- 1989 ·Bert Rigby, You're a Foolas Mrs. Pennington
- 1988 ·Dear Johnas Audrey
- 1987 ·The Trial of Klaus Barbieas Lagrange
- 1987 ·The Sign of Fouras Mrs Mordecai Smith
- 1987 ·The Return of Sherlock Holmesas Ms. Houston
- 1987 ·Making Wavesas Mrs Nash
- 1986 ·The Canterville Ghostas Mrs. Umney
- 1984 ·Camilleas Nanine
- 1984 ·Pericles, Prince of Tyreas Bawd
- 1984 ·Ellis Islandas Kathleen O'Donnell
- 1984 ·Murder, She Wroteas Teresa Mancini
- 1984 ·The Invisible Manas
- 1984 ·Pull The Other Oneas Grandma
- 1984 ·Sherlock Holmesas Mrs. Mordecai Smith
- 1984 ·Mama Maloneas 'Mama' Renate Malone
- 1982 ·The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyas
- 1982 ·Cheersas Lillian Huxley
- 1981 ·Sredni Vashtaras Mrs. Woolridge
- 1981 ·An American Werewolf in Londonas Barmaid
- 1979 ·Quincy's Questas Mrs Clause
- 1977 ·The Black Pantheras
- 1977 ·The Kitchenas Bertha
- 1973 ·A Place to Dieas Bess
- 1971 ·See No Evilas Gypsy Mother
- 1971 ·Mr. Horatio Knibblesas Nancy's Mother
- 1969 ·The Flaxton Boysas Sarah Weekes
- 1968 ·The Fiction Makersas Ma
- 1962 ·The Saintas Ma