Lila Kaye
Birthday: 1929-11-07 | Place of Birth: Worthing, Sussex, England, UKLila 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
Acting
Role
as Mrs. Cosgrove
as Margaret Hunt
as Vi Butterfield
as Dorothy, Jill's mother
as Jane's Mother
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
as Mrs. Pennington
as Lagrange
as Mrs Nash
as Ms. Houston
as Mrs. Umney
as 'Mama' Renate Malone
as Kathleen O'Donnell
as Nanine
as Barmaid
as Mrs. Woolridge
as Griselda
as Bess
as The Manageress
as Gypsy Mother
as Nancy's Mother
as Ma
