Lila Kaye

Lila Kaye

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.

  • Title: Lila Kaye
  • Popularity: 1.438
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-11-07
  • Place of Birth: Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
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Lila Kaye Movies

  • 1981
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    An American Werewolf in London

    An American Werewolf in London

    7.4 1981 HD

    American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a...

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  • 1971
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    Mr. Horatio Knibbles

    Mr. Horatio Knibbles

    5.7 1971 HD

    Mary Bunting is sitting alone when to her surprise and delight a rabbit six foot tall - elegantly dressed in frock coat and fancy waistcoat -...

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  • 1990
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    Nuns on the Run

    Nuns on the Run

    5.8 1990 HD

    Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads...

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  • 1979
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    Quincy's Quest

    Quincy's Quest

    5.5 1979 HD

    It's the night before Christmas, and all the toy store rejects are due to be tossed into the furnace. This includes Quincy, a most lifelike doll. In...

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  • 1987
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    Making Waves

    Making Waves

    6.5 1987 HD

    A group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and constantly watches him saying he has a brain tumor. His...

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  • 1991
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    Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

    Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

    7 1991 HD

    This biographical drama, based on the late actress's autobiography, chronicles her attempts to rescue her drug addicted son while simultaneously...

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  • 1987
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    The Trial of Klaus Barbie

    The Trial of Klaus Barbie

    1 1987 HD

    Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.

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  • 1984
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    Camille

    Camille

    5.6 1984 HD

    Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...

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  • 1977
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    The Kitchen

    The Kitchen

    1 1977 HD

    Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his...

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  • 1987
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    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    5.2 1987 HD

    Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years.

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  • 1996
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    Eskimo Day

    Eskimo Day

    8 1996 HD

    Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly...

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  • 1986
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    The Canterville Ghost

    The Canterville Ghost

    6.6 1986 HD

    A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the...

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  • 1992
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    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    7.778 1992 HD

    Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but...

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  • 1994
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    Dragonworld

    Dragonworld

    5 1994 HD

    A young man must risk his life to save his fire-breathing friend from the unscrupulous owner of an amusement park.

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  • 1990
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    Antonia and Jane

    Antonia and Jane

    5.5 1990 HD

    Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest...

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  • 1971
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    See No Evil

    See No Evil

    6.482 1971 HD

    In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her...

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  • 1984
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    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    7 1984 HD

    When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another...

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  • 1977
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    The Black Panther

    The Black Panther

    5.8 1977 HD

    A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.

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  • 1973
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    A Place to Die

    A Place to Die

    10 1973 HD

    Doctor Bruce Nelson takes over the medical practice of a village general-practitioner. Upon arriving in their new home, the doctor and his wife,...

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  • 1968
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    The Fiction Makers

    The Fiction Makers

    7.2 1968 HD

    Simon Templar is hired by a friend in the book publishing trade to protect one of his stars, a secretive recluse named Amos Klein who writes a...

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  • 1989
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    Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

    Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

    5.6 1989 HD

    A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.

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  • 1981
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    Sredni Vashtar

    Sredni Vashtar

    6.6 1981 HD

    Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 short film, written, produced and directed by Andrew Birkin, based on the short story of the same name written by Hector...

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  • 1987
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    The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    7.28 1987 HD

    Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret...

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  • 1984
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    Pull The Other One

    Pull The Other One

    1 1984 HD

    Comedy series about a family and their grandmother, who lives with them - much to the annoyance of her son-in-law, Sidney.

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  • 1969
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    The Flaxton Boys

    The Flaxton Boys

    5 1969 HD

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  • 1984
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    Mama Malone

    Mama Malone

    1 1984 HD

    Mama Malone is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 7, 1984 to July 21, 1984 starring British character actress Lila Kaye as the title...

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  • 1984
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    Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes

    8.1 1984 HD

    Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend...

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  • 1984
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    The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man

    7 1984 HD

    A deranged scientist discovers a formula by which to make himself invisible, but is driven to insanity by his inability to reverse the formula and is...

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  • 1984
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    Ellis Island

    Ellis Island

    5 1984 HD

    Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard...

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  • 1982
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    7 1982 HD

    Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he...

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  • 1988
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    Dear John

    Dear John

    5.8 1988 HD

    Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is dumped by his wife, Wendy, via a Dear John letter. Wendy...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.327 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1982
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    Cheers

    Cheers

    7.6 1982 HD

    The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 1989
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    Birds of a Feather

    Birds of a Feather

    6.048 1989 HD

    Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson...

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  • 1993
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    Cafe Americain

    Cafe Americain

    6.5 1993 HD

    Café Americain is an American sitcom starring Valerie Bertinelli which aired on NBC during the 1993–1994 television season from...

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