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