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.
An American Werewolf in London
as BarmaidAmerican tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on...
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Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up...
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See No Evil
as Gypsy MotherIn the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in...
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Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Vi BUtterfieldAda Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to...
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The Sign of Four
as Mrs Mordecai SmithMary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This...
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The Canterville Ghost
as Mrs. UmneyA young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the...
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The Black Panther
as uncreditedA gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a...
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Dragonworld
as Mrs. CosgroveA young man must risk his life to save his fire-breathing friend from the unscrupulous owner of...
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Camille
as NanineCamille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand...
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Antonia and Jane
as Jane's MotherPlain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris...
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Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
as Mrs. PenningtonA musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.
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The Fiction Makers
as MaSimon Templar is hired by a friend in the book publishing trade to protect one of his stars, a...
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Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
as Dorothy, Jill's motherThis biographical drama, based on the late actress's autobiography, chronicles her attempts to...
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as LagrangeDecades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Ms. HoustonSherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
as BawdWhen Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight...
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Sredni Vashtar
as Mrs. WoolridgeSredni Vashtar is a 1981 short film, written, produced and directed by Andrew Birkin, based on...
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Quincy's Quest
as Mrs ClauseIt's the night before Christmas, and all the toy store rejects are due to be tossed into the...
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Eskimo Day
as Mother PollyComedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise...
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A Place to Die
as BessDoctor Bruce Nelson takes over the medical practice of a village general-practitioner. Upon...
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The Kitchen
as BerthaAlvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen,...
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Making Waves
as Mrs NashA group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and...
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Mr. Horatio Knibbles
as Nancy's MotherMary Bunting is sitting alone when to her surprise and delight a rabbit six foot tall -...
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The Saint
as MaSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
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Murder, She Wrote
as Teresa ManciniAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...
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Cheers
as Lillian HuxleyThe story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and...
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Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs. Mordecai SmithSherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...
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Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. McCarthyBirds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on...
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Dear John
as AudreyDear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is...
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Cafe Americain
as Margaret HuntCafé Americain is an American sitcom starring Valerie Bertinelli which aired on NBC during the...
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
as uncreditedYoung Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister...
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Mama Malone
as 'Mama' Renate MaloneMama Malone is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 7, 1984 to July 21, 1984 starring...
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Ellis Island
as Kathleen O'DonnellEllis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television...
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The Invisible Man
as uncreditedA deranged scientist discovers a formula by which to make himself invisible, but is driven to...
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