Lila Kaye
Age: N/A | From: Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 15
TV Involvements: 4
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Sherlock Holmes
(1984) Mrs. Mordecai Smith
The Saint
(1962) Ma
The Flaxton Boys
(1969) Sarah Weekes
See No Evil
(1971) Gypsy Mother
Dragonworld
(1994) Mrs. Cosgrove
The Sign of Four
(1987) Mrs Mordecai Smith
Ellis Island
(1984) Kathleen O'Donnell
The Canterville Ghost
(1986) Mrs. UmneyActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Mother Polly | |
| 1994 | Mrs. Cosgrove | |
| 1993 | Margaret Hunt | |
| 1992 | Vi BUtterfield | |
| 1991 | Dorothy, Jill's mother | |
| 1990 | Sister Mary of the Annunciation | |
| Jane's Mother | ||
| 1989 | Mrs. McCarthy | |
| Mrs. Pennington | ||
| 1987 | Lagrange | |
| Mrs Mordecai Smith | ||
| Ms. Houston | ||
| Mrs Nash | ||
| 1986 | Mrs. Umney | |
| 1984 | Nanine | |
| Bawd | ||
| Kathleen O'Donnell | ||
| N/A | ||
| Grandma | ||
| Mrs. Mordecai Smith | ||
| 'Mama' Renate Malone | ||
| 1982 | N/A | |
| 1981 | Mrs. Woolridge | |
| Barmaid | ||
| 1979 | Mrs Clause | |
| 1977 | N/A | |
| 1973 | Bess | |
| 1971 | Gypsy Mother | |
| Nancy's Mother | ||
| 1969 | Sarah Weekes | |
| 1968 | Ma | |
| 1962 | Ma | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
