Lila Kaye
Acting
Born November 7, 1929 · Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
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 · 40 titles
Murder, She Wrote
Cheers
Theatre 625
Sherlock Holmes
The Saint
BBC2 Play of the Week
Birds of a Feather
Dear John
An American Werewolf in London
Festival
Cafe Americain
The Flaxton Boys
Mama Malone
David Copperfield
Ellis Island
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Invisible Man
Nuns on the Run
The Canterville Ghost
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
See No Evil
The Sign of Four
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
The Black Panther
Camille
Pull The Other One
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Antonia and Jane
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Dragonworld
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Fiction Makers
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Eskimo Day
King's Cross Lunch Hour
A Place to Die
The Kitchen
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Sredni Vashtar