Lila Kaye

Lila Kaye

Birthday: 1929-11-07

Deathday: 2012-01-10

Place of birth: Worthing, Sussex, England, UK

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0443343

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.

Played in movies:

A Place to Die

Score: 8.5

Eskimo Day

Score: 7.5

An American Werewolf in London

Score: 7.4

The Sign of Four

Score: 7.3

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Score: 7.2

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Score: 7.0

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

Score: 7.0

The Fiction Makers

Score: 6.8

Sredni Vashtar

Score: 6.6

The Canterville Ghost

Score: 6.6

See No Evil

Score: 6.6

Making Waves

Score: 6.4

Nuns on the Run

Score: 5.8

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

Score: 5.7

The Black Panther

Score: 5.6

Quincy's Quest

Score: 5.5

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Score: 5.4

Camille

Score: 5.3

Antonia and Jane

Score: 5.0

Dragonworld

Score: 4.9

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Score: 4.4

King's Cross Lunch Hour

Score: 0.0

The Kitchen

Score: 0.0

The Trial of Klaus Barbie

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Sherlock Holmes

Score: 8.1

Festival

Score: 8.0

Cheers

Score: 7.6

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

The Saint

Score: 7.4

Theatre 625

Score: 7.2

The Invisible Man

Score: 7.0

BBC2 Play of the Week

Score: 7.0

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Score: 7.0

Cafe Americain

Score: 6.3

Birds of a Feather

Score: 6.1

The Flaxton Boys

Score: 5.5

Dear John

Score: 5.5

David Copperfield

Score: 5.0

Ellis Island

Score: 4.6

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

Score: 4.0

Mama Malone

Score: 0.0

Pull The Other One

Score: 0.0