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Name
Lila Kaye

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1929-11-07

Deathday
2012-01-10 (83 years old)

Place of Birth
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

Movies

Tv Shows

1981 An American Werewolf in London as Barmaid
1971 Mr. Horatio Knibbles as Nancy's Mother
1990 Nuns on the Run as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
1979 Quincy's Quest as Griselda
1987 Making Waves as Mrs Nash
1991 Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story as Dorothy, Jill's mother
1987 The Trial of Klaus Barbie as Lagrange
1984 Camille as Nanine
1977 The Kitchen as Bertha
1987 The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Ms. Houston
1996 Eskimo Day as Mother Polly
1986 The Canterville Ghost as Mrs. Umney
1992 Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris as Vi Butterfield
1994 Dragonworld as Mrs. Cosgrove
1990 Antonia and Jane as Jane's Mother
1971 See No Evil as Gypsy Mother
1984 Pericles, Prince of Tyre as Bawd
1977 The Black Panther
1973 A Place to Die as Bess
1968 The Fiction Makers as Ma
1989 Bert Rigby, You're a Fool as Mrs. Pennington
1981 Sredni Vashtar as Mrs. Woolridge
1987 The Sign of Four as Mrs Mordecai Smith
1972 King's Cross Lunch Hour as The Manageress

1984 Pull The Other One ( 6 episodes ) as Grandma
1984 Mama Malone ( 13 episodes ) as 'Mama' Renate Malone
1984 Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Mordecai Smith
1984 Ellis Island ( 3 episodes ) as Kathleen O'Donnell
1982 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ( 10 episodes )
1988 Dear John ( 1 episode ) as Audrey
1962 The Saint ( 1 episode ) as Ma
1982 Cheers ( 1 episode ) as Lillian Huxley
1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Teresa Mancini
1989 Birds of a Feather ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. McCarthy
1993 Cafe Americain ( 18 episodes ) as Margaret Hunt
1977 BBC2 Play of the Week ( 1 episode ) as Bertha
1966 David Copperfield ( 7 episodes ) as Clara Peggotty
1963 Festival ( 1 episode ) as Sophie
1992 Anglo Saxon Attitudes ( 3 episodes ) as Dr. Rose Lorimer
1984 The Invisible Man ( 3 episodes ) as Mrs Jenny Hall
1964 Theatre 625 ( 1 episode ) as Romaine
1969 The Flaxton Boys ( 9 episodes ) as Sarah Weekes

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