Lila Kaye
Actor
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.
Filmography
Nuns on the Run
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation 1990
See No Evil
as Gypsy Mother 1971
The Sign of Four
as Mrs Mordecai Smith 1987
The Canterville Ghost
as Mrs. Umney 1986
Dragonworld
as Mrs. Cosgrove 1994
The Black Panther
1977
Camille
as Nanine 1984
The Fiction Makers
as Ma 1968
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Vi Butterfield 1992
Antonia and Jane
as Jane's Mother 1990
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
as Mrs. Pennington 1989
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
as Nancy's Mother 1971
Making Waves
as Mrs Nash 1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Ms. Houston 1987
Sredni Vashtar
as Mrs. Woolridge 1981
Quincy's Quest
as Griselda 1979