Paula Jacobs
Paula Elsa Jacobs (1932 – 26 June 2021) was a British actress whose television and film career spanned four decades.
Born in Liverpool in 1932 into a Jewish family, her father was J.P. Jacobs, whose company supplied all the elastic to Marks & Spencer. Jacobs made her first television appearance in Z-Cars in 1962, going on to play roles in Softly, Softly: Task Force (1972–1975), Shoestring (1979), Hammer House of Horror (1980), Mapp & Lucia (1985), Mrs Biggs in Porterhouse Blue (1987), The New Statesman (1989), Bergerac (1990), Maud Wilberforce in Jeeves and Wooster (1990), Brookside (1992), French and Saunders (1993), Coronation Street (1994), Casualty (1989–1995), Drop the Dead Donkey (1994–1998), Dalziel and Pascoe (2000), Midsomer Murders (2002), Agatha Christie's Poirot (2004) and Doctors (2008).
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Movies (11)
Crossing the Floor
1996 · Madam Speaker
The Remains of the Day
1993 · Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Duel of Hearts
1992 · Landlady
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
1990 · Rosemary
We Think the World of You
1988 · Deirdre
Dead Lucky
1988 · Mrs Gogarty
Wings of Death
1985 · Mum / Landlady
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984 · Doreen
To the Lighthouse
1983 · Mildred
An American Werewolf in London
1981 · Mrs. Kessler
Birth of the Beatles
1979 · Mrs Flemming
TV shows (16)
Attachments
2000 · Rosa
CI5: The New Professionals
1999
Belfry Witches
1999
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Mrs. Bosworth
Jeeves and Wooster
1990 · Maud Wilberforce
Birds of a Feather
1989 · Mrs. Belloc
May to December
1989 · Doreen
The New Statesman
1987 · Labour MP
Casualty
1986 · Iris Thompson
Albion Market
1985
Mapp & Lucia
1985 · Cook
Scully
1984 · Florrie
Bergerac
1981 · Mrs. Frith
Hammer House of Horror
1980 · Joyce
Shoestring
1979 · Manageress
Theatre 625
1964 · Victim