Lila Kaye

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.

Lila Kaye is known for work in acting across film and television. New Release currently presents 26 verified screen credits connected to this profile.

Selected work includes Nuns on the Run (1990), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Cheers (1982), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Sherlock Holmes (1984), The Saint (1962), Theatre 625 (1964), Birds of a Feather (1989). The recorded credits span 1962 to 1993, including 7 movies and 19 TV shows.

The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles. This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.