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Lila Kaye

1929-11-07

The 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 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.

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An American Werewolf in London

7.408 average rating
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Nuns on the Run

5.8 average rating
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See No Evil

6.5 average rating
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The Canterville Ghost

6.6 average rating
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The Sign of Four

7.28 average rating
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Dragonworld

5 average rating
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The Black Panther

5.8 average rating
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Camille

5.6 average rating
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Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

5.6 average rating
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The Fiction Makers

7.2 average rating
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

7 average rating
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Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

7.8 average rating
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Mr. Horatio Knibbles

5.7 average rating
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The Trial of Klaus Barbie

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

5.2 average rating
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The Kitchen

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Quincy's Quest

5.5 average rating
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Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

7 average rating
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Antonia and Jane

5.5 average rating
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A Place to Die

10 average rating