Lila Kaye

Acting Nov 7, 1929 Jan 10, 2012 (aged 83) Worthing, Sussex, England, UK

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.

42 Acting Credits

Lila Kaye

Acting

An American Werewolf in London

Cheers

Murder, She Wrote

Sherlock Holmes

Nuns on the Run

See No Evil

The Saint

The Sign of Four

The Canterville Ghost

Dragonworld

The Black Panther

Birds of a Feather

Camille

Dear John

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

The Fiction Makers

Ellis Island

Antonia and Jane

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

Making Waves

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Sredni Vashtar

Quincy's Quest