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
Nuns on the Run
See No Evil
Antonia and Jane
The Canterville Ghost
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
The Black Panther
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Dragonworld
The Fiction Makers
Camille
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Quincy's Quest
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sredni Vashtar
Making Waves
Eskimo Day
The Sign of Four
A Place to Die
