Lila Kaye
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
ActingBirthday
November 7, 1929Deathday
January 10, 2012Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
23Place of birth
Worthing, Sussex, England, UKCast credits
An American Werewolf in London
BarmaidNuns on the Run
Sister Mary of the AnnunciationQuincy's Quest
Mrs ClauseMaking Waves
Mrs NashReason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Dorothy, Jill's motherCamille
NanineThe Return of Sherlock Holmes
Ms. HoustonThe Canterville Ghost
Mrs. UmneyEskimo Day
Mother PollyMrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Vi BUtterfieldDragonworld
Mrs. CosgroveAntonia and Jane
Jane's MotherSee No Evil
Gypsy MotherPericles, Prince of Tyre
BawdThe Black Panther
A Place to Die
BessThe Fiction Makers
MaBert Rigby, You're a Fool
Mrs. PenningtonSredni Vashtar
Mrs. WoolridgeThe Sign of Four
Mrs Mordecai SmithMr. Horatio Knibbles
Nancy's Mother