Lila Kaye
Known For
Acting
Born
1929-11-07 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
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.
Most Known For
Murder, She Wrote
as Teresa Mancini
Cheers
as Lillian Huxley
The Saint
as Ma
Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs. Mordecai Smith
Dear John
as Audrey
Theatre 625
as Romaine
Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. McCarthy
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Bertha
An American Werewolf in London
as Barmaid
Festival
as Sophie
Cafe Americain
as Margaret Hunt
The Flaxton Boys
as Sarah Weekes
Mama Malone
as 'Mama' Renate Malone
Antonia and Jane
as Jane's Mother
David Copperfield
as Clara Peggotty
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Dr. Rose Lorimer
The Invisible Man
as Mrs Jenny Hall
Nuns on the Run
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Ellis Island
as Kathleen O'Donnell
