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).
Filmography (27 titles)
Attachments
Rosa · 2000
6.8ShowCI5: The New Professionals
1999
7.5ShowBelfry Witches
1999
7.5ShowMidsomer Murders
Mrs. Bosworth · 1997
6.8MovieCrossing the Floor
Madam Speaker · 1996
7.4MovieThe Remains of the Day
Mrs. Mortimer, the cook · 1993
7.0MovieDuel of Hearts
Landlady · 1992
8.5MovieCan You Hear Me Thinking?
Rosemary · 1990
8.1ShowJeeves and Wooster
Maud Wilberforce · 1990
6.3ShowBirds of a Feather
Mrs. Belloc · 1989
6.7ShowMay to December
Doreen · 1989
6.4MovieWe Think the World of You
Deirdre · 1988
4.0MovieDead Lucky
Mrs Gogarty · 1988
7.5ShowThe New Statesman
Labour MP · 1987
6.2ShowCasualty
Iris Thompson · 1986
7.0MovieWings of Death
Mum / Landlady · 1985
Albion Market
1985
6.3ShowMapp & Lucia
Cook · 1985
6.5ShowScully
Florrie · 1984
5.2MovieShe'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Doreen · 1984
5.2MovieTo the Lighthouse
Mildred · 1983
6.7ShowBergerac
Mrs. Frith · 1981
7.4MovieAn American Werewolf in London
Mrs. Kessler · 1981
7.1ShowHammer House of Horror
Joyce · 1980
6.5MovieBirth of the Beatles
Mrs Flemming · 1979
7.7ShowShoestring
Manageress · 1979
7.2ShowTheatre 625
Victim · 1964