Lila Kaye

Acting·Nov 7, 1929·Worthing, Sussex, England, UK

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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.

Film	Credit
Eskimo Day1996 · Mother Polly	Mother Polly
Dragonworld1994 · Mrs. Cosgrove	Mrs. Cosgrove
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris1992 · Vi Butterfield	Vi Butterfield
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story1991 · Dorothy, Jill's mother	Dorothy, Jill's mother
Antonia and Jane1990 · Jane's Mother	Jane's Mother
Nuns on the Run1990 · Sister Mary of the Annunciation	Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool1989 · Mrs. Pennington	Mrs. Pennington
The Trial of Klaus Barbie1987 · Lagrange	Lagrange
The Sign of Four1987 · Mrs Mordecai Smith	Mrs Mordecai Smith
The Return of Sherlock Holmes1987 · Ms. Houston	Ms. Houston
Making Waves1987 · Mrs Nash	Mrs Nash
The Canterville Ghost1986 · Mrs. Umney	Mrs. Umney
Camille1984 · Nanine	Nanine
Pericles, Prince of Tyre1984 · Bawd	Bawd
Sredni Vashtar1981 · Mrs. Woolridge	Mrs. Woolridge
An American Werewolf in London1981 · Barmaid	Barmaid
Quincy's Quest1979 · Griselda	Griselda
The Black Panther1977 · Actor	Actor
The Kitchen1977 · Bertha	Bertha
A Place to Die1973 · Bess	Bess
KKing's Cross Lunch Hour1972 · The Manageress	The Manageress
See No Evil1971 · Gypsy Mother	Gypsy Mother
Mr. Horatio Knibbles1971 · Nancy's Mother	Nancy's Mother
The Fiction Makers1968 · Ma	Ma