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Lila Kaye

Lila Kaye

Known For Acting
Birthday Nov 07, 1929
Died Jan 10, 2012 (82)
Birthplace Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
Popularity 1 (history)
Updated Aug 09, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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

Eskimo Day

1996

as Mother Polly

Dragonworld

Dragonworld

1994

as Mrs. Cosgrove

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

1992

as Vi BUtterfield

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

1991

as Dorothy, Jill's mother

Nuns on the Run

Nuns on the Run

1990

as Sister Mary of the Annunciation

Antonia and Jane

Antonia and Jane

1990

as Jane's Mother

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

1989

as Mrs. Pennington

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1987

as Ms. Houston

Making Waves

Making Waves

1987

as Mrs Nash

The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

1987

as Mrs Mordecai Smith

The Trial of Klaus Barbie

The Trial of Klaus Barbie

1987

as Lagrange

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost

1986

as Mrs. Umney

Camille

Camille

1984

as Nanine

Sredni Vashtar

Sredni Vashtar

1981

as Mrs. Woolridge

Quincy's Quest

Quincy's Quest

1979

as Mrs Clause

A Place to Die

A Place to Die

1973

as Bess

See No Evil

See No Evil

1971

as Gypsy Mother

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

1971

as Nancy's Mother

The Fiction Makers

The Fiction Makers

1968

as Ma

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Cafe Americain

as Margaret Hunt

Episodes: 18

First Aired: Sep 18, 1993

The Flaxton Boys

as Sarah Weekes

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Sep 21, 1969

Mama Malone

as 'Mama' Renate Malone

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Mar 07, 1984

Pull The Other One

as Grandma

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Jun 15, 1984

Ellis Island

as Kathleen O'Donnell

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Nov 11, 1984

Sherlock Holmes

as Mrs. Mordecai Smith

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 24, 1984

Dear John

as Audrey

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 06, 1988

The Saint

as Ma

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 04, 1962

Cheers

as Lillian Huxley

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1982

Murder, She Wrote

as Teresa Mancini

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1984

Birds of a Feather

as Mrs. McCarthy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 16, 1989

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Nov 07, 1982

The Invisible Man

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Sep 02, 1984

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2024 6 5 8 2
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2024 8 7 17 4
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2025 6 1 1 1
2025 7 0 0 0
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