Paula Jacobs
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).
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Full filmography
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Mrs. Bosworth
- Casualty (1986) as Iris Thompson
- Bergerac (1981) as Mrs. Frith
- Theatre 625 (1964) as Victim
- Jeeves and Wooster (1990) as Maud Wilberforce
- Birds of a Feather (1989) as Mrs. Belloc
- The New Statesman (1987) as Labour MP
- Attachments (2000) as Rosa
- An American Werewolf in London (1981) as Mrs. Kessler
- Shoestring (1979) as Manageress
- Hammer House of Horror (1980) as Joyce
- The Remains of the Day (1993) as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
- CI5: The New Professionals (1999)
- May to December (1989) as Doreen
- Mapp & Lucia (1985) as Cook
- Albion Market (1985)
- Scully (1984) as Florrie
- Duel of Hearts (1992) as Landlady
- Belfry Witches (1999)
- Crossing the Floor (1996) as Madam Speaker
- To the Lighthouse (1983) as Mildred
- Birth of the Beatles (1979) as Mrs Flemming
- We Think the World of You (1988) as Deirdre
- Dead Lucky (1988) as Mrs Gogarty