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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 7, 1929
Died
January 10, 2012
Place of Birth
Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
Lila Kaye
0.4 Popularity
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
7.5
Mother Polly
Eskimo Day
1996
4.9
Mrs. Cosgrove
Dragonworld
1994
6.3
Margaret Hunt
Cafe Americain
1993
7.2
Vi Butterfield
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
4.0
Dr. Rose Lorimer
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
7.0
Dorothy, Jill's mother
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
1991
5.0
Jane's Mother
Antonia and Jane
1990
5.8
Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Nuns on the Run
1990
6.1
Mrs. McCarthy
Birds of a Feather
1989
4.4
Mrs. Pennington
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
1989
Credits
Eskimo Day
as Mother Polly
1996
7.5
Dragonworld
as Mrs. Cosgrove
1994
4.9
Cafe Americain
as Margaret Hunt
1993
6.3
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Vi Butterfield
1992
7.2
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Dr. Rose Lorimer
1992
4.0
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
as Dorothy, Jill's mother
1991
7.0
Antonia and Jane
as Jane's Mother
1990
5.0
Nuns on the Run
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
1990
5.8
Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. McCarthy
1989
6.1
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
as Mrs. Pennington
1989
4.4
Dear John
as Audrey
1988
5.5
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as Lagrange
1987
0.0
The Sign of Four
as Mrs Mordecai Smith
1987
7.3
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Ms. Houston
1987
5.4
Making Waves
as Mrs Nash
1987
6.4
The Canterville Ghost
as Mrs. Umney
1986
6.7
Camille
as Nanine
1984
5.3
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
as Bawd
1984
7.0
Ellis Island
as Kathleen O'Donnell
1984
4.6
Murder, She Wrote
as Teresa Mancini
1984
7.5
The Invisible Man
as Mrs Jenny Hall
1984
7.0
🎬
Pull The Other One
as Grandma
1984
0.0
Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs. Mordecai Smith
1984
8.1
Mama Malone
as 'Mama' Renate Malone
1984
0.0
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
7.0
Cheers
as Lillian Huxley
1982
7.6
Sredni Vashtar
as Mrs. Woolridge
1981
6.6
An American Werewolf in London
as Barmaid
1981
7.4
Quincy's Quest
as Mrs Clause
1979
5.5
The Black Panther
1977
5.6
The Kitchen
as Bertha
1977
0.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Bertha
1977
7.0
A Place to Die
as Bess
1973
8.5
🎬
King's Cross Lunch Hour
as The Manageress
1972
0.0
See No Evil
as Gypsy Mother
1971
6.5
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
as Nancy's Mother
1971
5.7
The Flaxton Boys
as Sarah Weekes
1969
5.5
The Fiction Makers
as Ma
1968
7.0
🎬
David Copperfield
as Clara Peggotty
1966
5.0
Theatre 625
as Romaine
1964
7.2
🎬
Festival
as Sophie
1963
8.0
The Saint
as Ma
1962
7.4