Cast & creator
Lila Kaye
Best known for Cheers, Murder, She Wrote, The Saint
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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television credits
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1962–1996 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (44)
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Cheers
Lillian Huxley
1982
Murder, She Wrote
Teresa Mancini
1984
The Saint
Ma
1962
Sherlock Holmes
Mrs. Mordecai Smith
1984
Theatre 625
Romaine
1964
Dear John
Audrey
1988
Birds of a Feather
Mrs. McCarthy
1989
BBC2 Play of the Week
Bertha
1977
An American Werewolf in London
Barmaid
1981Festival
Sophie
1963
Cafe Americain
Margaret Hunt
1993
Mama Malone
'Mama' Renate Malone
1984
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Dr. Rose Lorimer
1992
The Flaxton Boys
Sarah Weekes
1969
Ellis Island
Kathleen O'Donnell
1984
The Invisible Man
Mrs Jenny Hall
1984David Copperfield
Clara Peggotty
1966
Nuns on the Run
Sister Mary of the Annunciation
1990
See No Evil
Gypsy Mother
1971The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
Mrs. Alexander
1979
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Ms. Houston
1987Pull The Other One
Grandma
1984
The Sign of Four
Mrs Mordecai Smith
1987
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
Dorothy, Jill's mother
1991
Antonia and Jane
Jane's Mother
1990
Bad Boyes
Gran
1987
The Black Panther
1977
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Vi Butterfield
1992
The Canterville Ghost
Mrs. Umney
1986
The Fiction Makers
Ma
1968
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Bawd
1984
Camille
Nanine
1984
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Lagrange
1987King's Cross Lunch Hour
The Manageress
1972
Dragonworld
Mrs. Cosgrove
1994
A Place to Die
Bess
1973
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Mrs. Pennington
1989
Eskimo Day
Mother Polly
1996
Quincy's Quest
Griselda
1979
The Kitchen
Bertha
1977
Making Waves
Mrs Nash
1987
Sredni Vashtar
Mrs. Woolridge
1981
Mr. Horatio Knibbles
Nancy's Mother
1971