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