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Lila Kaye
Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
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…
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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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1996
Eskimo Day
Movie Mother Polly
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1994
Dragonworld
Movie Mrs. Cosgrove
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1993
Cafe Americain
TV show Margaret Hunt
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1992
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Movie Vi Butterfield
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1992
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
TV show Dr. Rose Lorimer
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1991
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Movie Dorothy, Jill's mother
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1990
Antonia and Jane
Movie Jane's Mother
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1990
Nuns on the Run
Movie Sister Mary of the Annunciation
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1989
Birds of a Feather
TV show Mrs. McCarthy
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1989
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Movie Mrs. Pennington
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1988
Dear John
TV show Audrey
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1987
Bad Boyes
TV show Gran
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1987
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Movie Lagrange
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1987
The Sign of Four
Movie Mrs Mordecai Smith
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1987
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Movie Ms. Houston
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1987
Making Waves
Movie Mrs Nash
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1986
The Canterville Ghost
Movie Mrs. Umney
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1984
Camille
Movie Nanine
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1984
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Movie Bawd
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1984
Ellis Island
TV show Kathleen O'Donnell
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Teresa Mancini
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1984
The Invisible Man
TV show Mrs Jenny Hall
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1984
Pull The Other One
TV show Grandma
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1984
Sherlock Holmes
TV show Mrs. Mordecai Smith
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1984
Mama Malone
TV show 'Mama' Renate Malone
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1982
Cheers
TV show Lillian Huxley
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1981
Sredni Vashtar
Movie Mrs. Woolridge
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1981
An American Werewolf in London
Movie Barmaid
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1979
Quincy's Quest
Movie Griselda
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1979
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
TV show Mrs. Alexander
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1977
The Black Panther
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1977
The Kitchen
Movie Bertha
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1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV show Bertha
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1973
A Place to Die
Movie Bess
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1972
King's Cross Lunch Hour
Movie The Manageress
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1971
See No Evil
Movie Gypsy Mother
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1971
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Movie Nancy's Mother
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1969
The Flaxton Boys
TV show Sarah Weekes
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1968
The Fiction Makers
Movie Ma
