Acting credits
38
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Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Lila Kaye
Acting
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Movies: 23Series: 15
TMDB ID: 14466
IMDb ID: nm0443343
Known for: Acting
Born: November 7, 1929
Died: January 10, 2012
Age: 82
Place of birth: Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1962 - 1996
Years active: 35
Average TMDB rating: 6.75
Wikidata: Q16019435
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Lila Kaye.
7.5
Eskimo Day
as Mother Polly
1996 Movie
4.9
Dragonworld
as Mrs. Cosgrove
1994 Movie
7.2
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Vi Butterfield
1992 Movie
7.0
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
as Dorothy, Jill's mother
1991 Movie
5.0
Antonia and Jane
as Jane's Mother
1990 Movie
5.8
Nuns on the Run
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
1990 Movie
4.4
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
as Mrs. Pennington
1989 Movie
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as Lagrange
1987 Movie
7.4
The Sign of Four
as Mrs Mordecai Smith
1987 Movie
5.4
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Ms. Houston
1987 Movie
6.4
Making Waves
as Mrs Nash
1987 Movie
6.7
The Canterville Ghost
as Mrs. Umney
1986 Movie
5.3
Camille
as Nanine
1984 Movie
7.0
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
as Bawd
1984 Movie
6.6
Sredni Vashtar
as Mrs. Woolridge
1981 Movie
7.4
An American Werewolf in London
as Barmaid
1981 Movie
5.5
Quincy's Quest
as Griselda
1979 Movie
5.6
The Black Panther
1977 Movie
The Kitchen
as Bertha
1977 Movie
8.5
A Place to Die
as Bess
1973 Movie
6.5
See No Evil
as Gypsy Mother
1971 Movie
5.7
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
as Nancy's Mother
1971 Movie
7.0
The Fiction Makers
as Ma
1968 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Lila Kaye.
6.3
Cafe Americain
as Margaret Hunt • 18 eps
1993 Series
4.0
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Dr. Rose Lorimer • 3 eps
1992 Series
6.1
Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. McCarthy • 1 eps
1989 Series
5.5
Dear John
as Audrey • 1 eps
1988 Series
4.6
Ellis Island
as Kathleen O'Donnell • 3 eps
1984 Series
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Teresa Mancini • 1 eps
1984 Series
7.0
The Invisible Man
as Mrs Jenny Hall • 3 eps
1984 Series
8.1
Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs. Mordecai Smith • 1 eps
1984 Series
Mama Malone
as 'Mama' Renate Malone • 13 eps
1984 Series
7.0
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
10 eps
1982 Series
7.5
Cheers
as Lillian Huxley • 1 eps
1982 Series
7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Bertha • 1 eps
1977 Series
5.5
The Flaxton Boys
as Sarah Weekes • 9 eps
1969 Series
7.2
Theatre 625
as Romaine • 1 eps
1964 Series
7.4
The Saint
as Ma • 1 eps
1962 Series