
Lila Kaye
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.
Acting (23 movies)

An American Werewolf in London
1981

Mr. Horatio Knibbles
1971

Nuns on the Run
1990

Quincy's Quest
1979

Making Waves
1987

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
1991

The Trial of Klaus Barbie
1987

Camille
1984

The Kitchen
1977

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987

Eskimo Day
1996

The Canterville Ghost
1986

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992

Dragonworld
1994

Antonia and Jane
1990

See No Evil
1971

Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984

The Black Panther
1977

A Place to Die
1973

The Fiction Makers
1968

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
1989

Sredni Vashtar
1981

The Sign of Four
1987
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