Paula Jacobs
Born: 1932-01-01 in Liverpool, England, UK
Died: 2021-06-26
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2000
- Attachments as Rosa
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Mrs. Bosworth
1996
- Dalziel & Pascoe
- Crossing the Floor as Madam Speaker
1993
- The Remains of the Day as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
1992
- Duel of Hearts as Landlady
1990
- Jeeves and Wooster as Maud Wilberforce
- Can You Hear Me Thinking? as Rosemary
1989
- Birds of a Feather as Mrs. Belloc
- May to December as Doreen
1988
- We Think the World of You as Deirdre
- Dead Lucky as Mrs Gogarty
1987
- The New Statesman as Labour MP
1986
- Casualty as Iris Thompson
1985
- Wings of Death as Mum / Landlady
1984
- Scully as Florrie
- She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas as Doreen
1983
- To the Lighthouse as Mildred
1981
- Bergerac as Mrs. Frith
- An American Werewolf in London as Mrs. Kessler
1980
- Hammer House of Horror as Joyce
1979
- Shoestring
- Birth of The Beatles as Mrs Flemming
1964
- Theatre 625 as Victim