Paula Jacobs
ActingBiography
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).
Movies
(11 total)
An American Werewolf in London
as Mrs. Kessler
The Remains of the Day
as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
We Think the World of You
as Deirdre
Birth of The Beatles
as Mrs Flemming
To the Lighthouse
as Mildred
Crossing the Floor
as Madam Speaker
Dead Lucky
as Mrs Gogarty
Duel of Hearts
as Landlady
Wings of Death
as Mum / Landlady
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
as Rosemary
TV Shows
(17 total)
Midsomer Murders
as Mrs. Bosworth
Jeeves and Wooster
as Maud Wilberforce
Casualty
as Iris Thompson
Hammer House of Horror
as Joyce
The New Statesman
as Labour MP
Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. Belloc
Bergerac
as Mrs. Frith
Mapp & Lucia
as Cook
May to December
as Doreen
Theatre 625
as Victim
Shoestring
as Manageress
Scully
as Florrie