Acting · Worthing, Sussex, England, UK · Born November 7, 1929
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.
MovieEskimo Day
1996
as Mother Polly
MovieDragonworld
1994
as Mrs. Cosgrove
TVCafe Americain
1993
as Margaret Hunt
MovieMrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
as Vi Butterfield
TVAnglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
as Dr. Rose Lorimer
MovieReason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
1991
as Dorothy, Jill's mother
MovieAntonia and Jane
1990
as Jane's Mother
MovieNuns on the Run
1990
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
TVBirds of a Feather
1989
as Mrs. McCarthy
MovieBert Rigby, You're a Fool
1989
as Mrs. Pennington
TVDear John
1988
as Audrey
MovieThe Trial of Klaus Barbie
1987
as Lagrange
MovieThe Sign of Four
1987
as Mrs Mordecai Smith
MovieThe Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987
as Ms. Houston
MovieMaking Waves
1987
as Mrs Nash
MovieThe Canterville Ghost
1986
as Mrs. Umney
MovieCamille
1984
as Nanine
MoviePericles, Prince of Tyre
1984
as Bawd
TVEllis Island
1984
as Kathleen O'Donnell
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Teresa Mancini
TVThe Invisible Man
1984
as Mrs Jenny Hall
Pull The Other One
1984
as Grandma
TVSherlock Holmes
1984
as Mrs. Mordecai Smith
TVMama Malone
1984
as 'Mama' Renate Malone
TVThe Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
TVCheers
1982
as Lillian Huxley
MovieSredni Vashtar
1981
as Mrs. Woolridge
MovieAn American Werewolf in London
1981
as Barmaid
MovieQuincy's Quest
1979
as Griselda
MovieThe Black Panther
1977
MovieThe Kitchen
1977
as Bertha
TVBBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Bertha
MovieA Place to Die
1973
as Bess
King's Cross Lunch Hour
1972
as The Manageress
MovieSee No Evil
1971
as Gypsy Mother
MovieMr. Horatio Knibbles
1971
as Nancy's Mother
TVThe Flaxton Boys
1969
as Sarah Weekes
MovieThe Fiction Makers
1968
as Ma
David Copperfield
1966
as Clara Peggotty
TVTheatre 625
1964
as Romaine
Festival
1963
as Sophie
TVThe Saint
1962
as Ma
