Lila Kaye
Birthday
1929/11/07
Day of death
2012/01/10 (82 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
Also know as
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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 i...Read more
Acting
(1981) An American Werewolf in London
as Barmaid
(1971) Mr. Horatio Knibbles
as Nancy's Mother
(1990) Nuns on the Run
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
(1979) Quincy's Quest
as Mrs Clause
(1987) Making Waves
as Mrs Nash
(1991) Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
as Dorothy, Jill's mother
(1987) The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as Lagrange
(1984) Camille
as Nanine
(1977) The Kitchen
as Bertha
(1987) The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Ms. Houston
(1996) Eskimo Day
as Mother Polly
(1986) The Canterville Ghost
as Mrs. Umney
(1992) Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Vi Butterfield
(1994) Dragonworld
as Mrs. Cosgrove
(1990) Antonia and Jane
as Jane's Mother
(1971) See No Evil
as Gypsy Mother
(1984) Pericles, Prince of Tyre
as Bawd
(1977) The Black Panther
as ---
(1973) A Place to Die
as Bess
(1968) The Fiction Makers
as Ma
(1989) Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
as Mrs. Pennington
(1981) Sredni Vashtar
as Mrs. Woolridge
(1987) The Sign of Four
as Mrs Mordecai Smith
(1972) King's Cross Lunch Hour
as The Manageress
(1984) Pull The Other One
as Grandma
(1984) Mama Malone
as 'Mama' Renate Malone
(1984) Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs. Mordecai Smith
(1984) Ellis Island
as Kathleen O'Donnell
(1982) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
as ---
(1988) Dear John
as Audrey
(1962) The Saint
as Ma
(1982) Cheers
as Lillian Huxley
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Teresa Mancini
(1989) Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. McCarthy
(1993) Cafe Americain
as Margaret Hunt
(1977) BBC2 Play of the Week
as Bertha
(1966) David Copperfield
as Clara Peggotty
(1963) Festival
as Sophie
(1992) Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Dr. Rose Lorimer
(1984) The Invisible Man
as Mrs Jenny Hall
(1964) Theatre 625
as Romaine
(1969) The Flaxton Boys
as Sarah Weekes