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 andor comedic characters mostly on television including Cathy Come Home 1966 as a staff member at a homeless shelter and My Son Reuben 1975 costarring Bernard Spear as a Jewish mother and her bachelor son who jointly run a drycleaning business She also appeared in films including Blind Terror 1971 The Black Panther 1977 and Quincys 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 reallife mother of cancerstricken actress Jill Ireland played by Jill Clayburgh1 Kaye appeared in Bert Rigby Youre a Fool 1989 as Mrs Pennington and in Dragonworld 1994 as Mrs Cosgrove