1929-11-07 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.
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Eskimo Day | Mother Polly | 1996-04-04 |
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Dragonworld | Mrs. Cosgrove | 1994-07-27 |
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Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris | Vi BUtterfield | 1992-12-27 |
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Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story | Dorothy, Jill's mother | 1991-05-19 |
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Antonia and Jane | Jane's Mother | 1990-01-01 |
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Nuns on the Run | Sister Mary of the Annunciation | 1990-03-16 |
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Bert Rigby, You're a Fool | Mrs. Pennington | 1989-02-24 |
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie | Lagrange | 1987-07-15 |
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The Sign of Four | Mrs Mordecai Smith | 1987-03-07 |
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Making Waves | Mrs Nash | 1987-01-01 |
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Ms. Houston | 1987-01-10 |
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The Canterville Ghost | Mrs. Umney | 1986-12-31 |
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Camille | Nanine | 1984-12-11 |
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre | Bawd | 1984-12-08 |
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An American Werewolf in London | Barmaid | 1981-08-21 |
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Sredni Vashtar | Mrs. Woolridge | 1981-09-01 |
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Quincy's Quest | Mrs Clause | 1979-12-24 |
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The Black Panther | 1977-12-26 | |
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The Kitchen | Bertha | 1977-11-02 |
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A Place to Die | Bess | 1973-05-26 |
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Mr. Horatio Knibbles | Nancy's Mother | 1971-09-01 |
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See No Evil | Gypsy Mother | 1971-09-02 |
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The Fiction Makers | Ma | 1968-12-08 |
