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).
Filmography
Crossing the Floor
1996
as Madam Speaker
The Remains of the Day
1993
as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Duel of Hearts
1992
as Landlady
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
1990
as Rosemary
We Think the World of You
1988
as Deirdre
Dead Lucky
1988
as Mrs Gogarty
Wings of Death
1985
as Mum / Landlady
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984
as Doreen
To the Lighthouse
1983
as Mildred
An American Werewolf in London
1981
as Mrs. Kessler
Birth of the Beatles
1979
as Mrs Flemming