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).
Known For
Credits
- 2000 · Attachments as Rosa
- 1999 · CI5: The New Professionals as
- 1999 · Belfry Witches as
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Mrs. Bosworth
- 1996 · Crossing the Floor as Madam Speaker
- 1996 · Dalziel & Pascoe as
- 1994 · Anna Lee as Receptionist
- 1993 · The Remains of the Day as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
- 1992 · Duel of Hearts as Landlady
- 1990 · Can You Hear Me Thinking? as Rosemary
- 1990 · Jeeves and Wooster as Maud Wilberforce
- 1989 · Birds of a Feather as Mrs. Belloc
- 1988 · We Think the World of You as Deirdre
- 1988 · Dead Lucky as Mrs Gogarty
- 1987 · The New Statesman as Labour MP
- 1986 · Casualty as Iris Thompson
- 1985 · Wings of Death as Mum / Landlady
- 1981 · Bergerac as Mrs. Frith
- Future · Albion Market as
- 1989 · May to December as Doreen
- 1984 · Scully as Florrie
- 1984 · She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas as Doreen
- 1981 · An American Werewolf in London as Mrs. Kessler
- 1980 · Hammer House of Horror as Joyce
- 1979 · Birth of The Beatles as Mrs Flemming
- 1979 · Shoestring as