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).
Known For
Midsomer Murders
Casualty
Bergerac
Jeeves and Wooster
Theatre 625
Birds of a Feather
The New Statesman
An American Werewolf in London
All Movies (11)
- Crossing the Floor1996 · as Madam Speaker
- The Remains of the Day1993 · as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
- Duel of Hearts1992 · as Landlady
- Can You Hear Me Thinking?1990 · as Rosemary
- We Think the World of You1988 · as Deirdre
- Dead Lucky1988 · as Mrs Gogarty
- Wings of Death1985 · as Mum / Landlady
- She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas1984 · as Doreen
- To the Lighthouse1983 · as Mildred
- An American Werewolf in London1981 · as Mrs. Kessler
- Birth of the Beatles1979 · as Mrs Flemming
All TV Shows (16)
- Attachments2000 · as Rosa
- CI5: The New Professionals1999
- Belfry Witches1999
- Midsomer Murders1997 · as Mrs. Bosworth
- Jeeves and Wooster1990 · as Maud Wilberforce
- Birds of a Feather1989 · as Mrs. Belloc
- May to December1989 · as Doreen
- The New Statesman1987 · as Labour MP
- Casualty1986 · as Iris Thompson
- Albion Market1985
- Mapp & Lucia1985 · as Cook
- Scully1984 · as Florrie
- Bergerac1981 · as Mrs. Frith
- Hammer House of Horror1980 · as Joyce
- Shoestring1979 · as Manageress
- Theatre 6251964 · as Victim