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Lila Kaye
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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 …
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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
as Mother Polly
Dragonworld
as Mrs. Cosgrove
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Vi Butterfield
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
as Dorothy, Jill's mother
Antonia and Jane
as Jane's Mother
Nuns on the Run
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
as Mrs. Pennington
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as Lagrange
The Sign of Four
as Mrs Mordecai Smith
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Ms. Houston
Making Waves
as Mrs Nash
The Canterville Ghost
as Mrs. Umney
Camille
as Nanine
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
as Bawd
Sredni Vashtar
as Mrs. Woolridge
An American Werewolf in London
as Barmaid
Quincy's Quest
as Griselda
The Black Panther
The Kitchen
as Bertha
A Place to Die
as Bess
No Poster
King's Cross Lunch Hour
as The Manageress
See No Evil
as Gypsy Mother
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
as Nancy's Mother
The Fiction Makers
as Ma