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    Lila Kaye

    1929-11-07 (95 years old) in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK

    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.

    Movies

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    Eskimo Day
    80 %|Apr 4, 1996
    Drama, Comedy, TV Movie
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    Dragonworld
    50 %|Jul 27, 1994
    Adventure, Fantasy
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    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
    78 %|Dec 27, 1992
    Drama, TV Movie
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    Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
    70 %|May 19, 1991
    Drama, TV Movie
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    Nuns on the Run
    58 %|Mar 16, 1990
    Comedy, Crime
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    Antonia and Jane
    55 %|Jan 1, 1990
    Drama
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    Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
    56 %|Feb 24, 1989
    Comedy
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    The Trial of Klaus Barbie
    0 %|Jul 15, 1987
    Drama, TV Movie
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    The Sign of Four
    72.8 %|Mar 7, 1987
    TV Movie, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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    The Return of Sherlock Holmes
    52 %|Jan 10, 1987
    Mystery, TV Movie
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    Making Waves
    65 %|Jan 1, 1987
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    The Canterville Ghost
    66 %|Dec 31, 1986
    Family, Adventure, TV Movie
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    Camille
    56 %|Dec 11, 1984
    Drama, Romance
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    Pericles, Prince of Tyre
    70 %|Dec 8, 1984
    Drama, TV Movie
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    Sredni Vashtar
    66 %|Sep 1, 1981
    Drama, Horror
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    An American Werewolf in London
    74.08 %|Aug 21, 1981
    Comedy, Horror
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    Quincy's Quest
    55 %|Dec 24, 1979
    Family, Fantasy, Comedy, TV Movie
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    The Black Panther
    58 %|Dec 26, 1977
    Crime, Drama, Thriller
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    The Kitchen
    0 %|Nov 2, 1977
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    A Place to Die
    100 %|May 26, 1973
    TV Movie, Horror
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    See No Evil
    65 %|Sep 2, 1971
    Thriller, Horror
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    Mr. Horatio Knibbles
    57 %|Sep 1, 1971
    Family, Fantasy, Comedy
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    The Fiction Makers
    72 %|Dec 8, 1968
    Crime, Action

    Series

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    Cafe Americain
    63.33 %|Sep 18, 1993
    Comedy
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    Birds of a Feather
    60 %|Oct 16, 1989
    Comedy, Drama
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    Dear John
    58 %|Oct 6, 1988
    Comedy
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    Ellis Island
    50 %|Nov 11, 1984
    Drama
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    Murder, She Wrote
    75 %|Sep 30, 1984
    Mystery, Crime, Drama
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    The Invisible Man
    70 %|Sep 2, 1984
    actor
    Pull The Other One
    0 %|Jun 15, 1984
    Comedy
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    Sherlock Holmes
    81 %|Apr 24, 1984
    Crime, Drama, Mystery
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    Mama Malone
    0 %|Mar 7, 1984
    Comedy
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    Cheers
    76 %|Sep 30, 1982
    Comedy
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    The Flaxton Boys
    50 %|Sep 21, 1969
    Action & Adventure, Family
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    The Saint
    73 %|Oct 4, 1962
    Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery