Lila Kaye

Born: 1929-11-07 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK

Died: 2012-01-10

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

1996

Eskimo Day as Mother Polly

1994

Dragonworld as Mrs. Cosgrove

1993

Cafe Americain as Margaret Hunt

1992

Anglo Saxon Attitudes as Dr. Rose Lorimer
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris as Vi Butterfield

1991

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story as Dorothy, Jill's mother

1990

Nuns on the Run as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Antonia and Jane as Jane's Mother

1989

Birds of a Feather as Mrs. McCarthy
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool as Mrs. Pennington

1988

Dear John as Audrey

1987

The Sign of Four as Mrs Mordecai Smith
The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Ms. Houston
The Trial of Klaus Barbie as Lagrange
Making Waves as Mrs Nash

1986

The Canterville Ghost as Mrs. Umney

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Teresa Mancini
Sherlock Holmes as Mrs. Mordecai Smith
Ellis Island as Kathleen O'Donnell
Mama Malone as 'Mama' Renate Malone
The Invisible Man as Mrs Jenny Hall
Camille as Nanine
Pericles, Prince of Tyre as Bawd
Pull The Other One as Grandma

1977

1973

A Place to Die as Bess

1972

King's Cross Lunch Hour as The Manageress

1971

See No Evil as Gypsy Mother
Mr. Horatio Knibbles as Nancy's Mother

1969

The Flaxton Boys as Sarah Weekes

1968

The Fiction Makers as Ma

1966

David Copperfield as Clara Peggotty

1964

Theatre 625 as Romaine

1963

Festival as Sophie

1962

The Saint as Ma