Lila Kaye

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.

Filmografi

An American Werewolf in London1981 · BarmaidThe Canterville Ghost1986 · Mrs. UmneyNuns on the Run1990 · Sister Mary of the AnnunciationAntonia and Jane1990 · Jane's MotherThe Sign of Four1987 · Mrs Mordecai SmithKing's Cross Lunch Hour1972 · The ManageressMrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris1992 · Vi ButterfieldSee No Evil1971 · Gypsy MotherCamille1984 · NanineThe Return of Sherlock Holmes1987 · Ms. HoustonThe Black Panther1977 · Bert Rigby, You're a Fool1989 · Mrs. PenningtonDragonworld1994 · Mrs. CosgroveA Place to Die1973 · BessReason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story1991 · Dorothy, Jill's motherThe Fiction Makers1968 · MaSredni Vashtar1981 · Mrs. WoolridgePericles, Prince of Tyre1984 · BawdEskimo Day1996 · Mother PollyThe Trial of Klaus Barbie1987 · LagrangeQuincy's Quest1979 · GriseldaMr. Horatio Knibbles1971 · Nancy's MotherThe Kitchen1977 · BerthaMaking Waves1987 · Mrs Nash