Lila Kaye

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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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Worthing, Sussex, England, UK

Birthday: November 07, 1929

Deathday: January 10, 2012

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Gender: Female

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Known For:

An American Werewolf in London
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Nuns on the Run
Quincy's Quest
Making Waves
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Camille
The Kitchen
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Eskimo Day
The Canterville Ghost
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Dragonworld
Antonia and Jane
See No Evil
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Black Panther
A Place to Die
The Fiction Makers
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Sredni Vashtar
The Sign of Four