
Lila Kaye
Born: 1929-11-07
Place of birth: 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.
Filmography

A Place to Die
1973

Sherlock Holmes
1984

Eskimo Day
1996

Mama Malone
1984

The Invisible Man
1984

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982

Cheers
1982

Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984

Murder, She Wrote
1984

The Sign of Four
1987

An American Werewolf in London
1981

The Saint
1962

The Fiction Makers
1968

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992

Theatre 625
1964

Sredni Vashtar
1981

Cafe Americain
1993