Personal Info
Lila Kaye
Acting
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 including Blind Terror (1971), The Black Panther (1977) and Quincy's Quest (1979), and found film suc…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Eskimo Day
as Mother Polly
Dragonworld
as Mrs. Cosgrove
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Vi Butterfield
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
as Dorothy, Jill's mother
Nuns on the Run
as Sister Mary of the Annunciation
Antonia and Jane
as Jane's Mother
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
as Mrs. Pennington
The Sign of Four
as Mrs Mordecai Smith
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Ms. Houston
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
as Lagrange
TV Shows
Cafe Americain
as Margaret Hunt · 18 ep.
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Dr. Rose Lorimer · 3 ep.
Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. McCarthy · 1 ep.
Dear John
as Audrey · 1 ep.
Murder, She Wrote
as Teresa Mancini · 1 ep.
Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs. Mordecai Smith · 1 ep.
Ellis Island
as Kathleen O'Donnell · 3 ep.
Mama Malone
as 'Mama' Renate Malone · 13 ep.
The Invisible Man
as Mrs Jenny Hall · 3 ep.
Pull The Other One
as Grandma · 6 ep.