About
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...
Known for
CheersSeries • 1982
Murder, She WroteSeries • 1984
The SaintSeries • 1962
Sherlock HolmesSeries • 1984
Theatre 625Series • 1964
Birds of a FeatherSeries • 1989
Dear JohnSeries • 1988
An American Werewolf in LondonMovie • 1981
BBC2 Play of the WeekSeries • 1977
Nuns on the RunMovie • 1990
The Canterville GhostMovie • 1986
DragonworldMovie • 1994
See No EvilMovie • 1971
The Sign of FourMovie • 1987
The Black PantherMovie • 1977