Lila Kaye
Acting • Born 1929-11-07 – Died 2012-01-10
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
42 credits
An American Werewolf in London
Movie • 1981
Barmaid
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Movie • 1971
Nancy's Mother
Nuns on the Run
Movie • 1990
Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Quincy's Quest
Movie • 1979
Griselda
Making Waves
Movie • 1987
Mrs Nash
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Movie • 1991
Dorothy, Jill's mother
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Movie • 1987
Lagrange
Camille
Movie • 1984
Nanine
The Kitchen
Movie • 1977
Bertha
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1987
Ms. Houston
Eskimo Day
Movie • 1996
Mother Polly
The Canterville Ghost
Movie • 1986
Mrs. Umney
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Movie • 1992
Vi Butterfield
Dragonworld
Movie • 1994
Mrs. Cosgrove
Antonia and Jane
Movie • 1990
Jane's Mother
See No Evil
Movie • 1971
Gypsy Mother
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Movie • 1984
Bawd
The Black Panther
Movie • 1977
A Place to Die
Movie • 1973
Bess
The Fiction Makers
Movie • 1968
Ma
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Movie • 1989
Mrs. Pennington
Sredni Vashtar
Movie • 1981
Mrs. Woolridge
The Sign of Four
Movie • 1987
Mrs Mordecai Smith
King's Cross Lunch Hour
Movie • 1972
The Manageress
Pull The Other One
TV • 1984
Grandma
Mama Malone
TV • 1984
'Mama' Renate Malone
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Mrs. Mordecai Smith
Ellis Island
TV • 1984
Kathleen O'Donnell
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
TV • 1982
Dear John
TV • 1988
Audrey
The Saint
TV • 1962
Ma
Cheers
TV • 1982
Lillian Huxley
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Teresa Mancini
Birds of a Feather
TV • 1989
Mrs. McCarthy
Cafe Americain
TV • 1993
Margaret Hunt
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
Bertha
David Copperfield
TV • 1966
Clara Peggotty
Festival
TV • 1963
Sophie
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
TV • 1992
Dr. Rose Lorimer
The Invisible Man
TV • 1984
Mrs Jenny Hall
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Romaine
The Flaxton Boys
TV • 1969
Sarah Weekes