Paula Jacobs
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1932
- Died
- June 26, 2021 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Liverpool, England, UK
Biography
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).
Known For
Filmography
Attachments
TV · as Rosa · 1 ep
CI5: The New Professionals
TV · 1 ep
Belfry Witches
TV · 13 eps
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Mrs. Bosworth · 1 ep
Crossing the Floor
Movie · as Madam Speaker
The Remains of the Day
Movie · as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Duel of Hearts
Movie · as Landlady
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
Movie · as Rosemary
Jeeves and Wooster
TV · as Maud Wilberforce · 1 ep
Birds of a Feather
TV · as Mrs. Belloc · 1 ep
May to December
TV · as Doreen · 1 ep
Dead Lucky
Movie · as Mrs Gogarty
We Think the World of You
Movie · as Deirdre
The New Statesman
TV · as Labour MP · 1 ep
Casualty
TV · as Iris Thompson · 1 ep
Wings of Death
Movie · as Mum / Landlady
Albion Market
TV · 100 eps
Mapp & Lucia
TV · as Cook · 3 eps
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Movie · as Doreen
Scully
TV · as Florrie · 7 eps
To the Lighthouse
Movie · as Mildred
An American Werewolf in London
Movie · as Mrs. Kessler
Bergerac
TV · as Mrs. Frith · 1 ep
Hammer House of Horror
TV · as Joyce · 1 ep
Birth of the Beatles
Movie · as Mrs Flemming
Shoestring
TV · as Manageress · 1 ep
Theatre 625
TV · as Victim · 1 ep