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).

Movies & TV Shows

1. An American Werewolf in London (1981) — Mrs. Kessler
2. The Remains of the Day (1993) — Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
3. Midsomer Murders (1997) — Mrs. Bosworth
4. Jeeves and Wooster (1990) — Maud Wilberforce
5. Casualty (1986) — Iris Thompson
6. Hammer House of Horror (1980) — Joyce
7. The New Statesman (1987) — Labour MP
8. Birds of a Feather (1989) — Mrs. Belloc
9. Bergerac (1981) — Mrs. Frith
10. We Think the World of You (1988) — Deirdre
11. Birth of the Beatles (1979) — Mrs Flemming
12. To the Lighthouse (1983) — Mildred
13. Mapp & Lucia (1985) — Cook
14. May to December (1989) — Doreen
15. She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1984) — Doreen
16. Shoestring (1979) — Manageress
17. CI5: The New Professionals (1999)
18. Attachments (2000) — Rosa
19. Theatre 625 (1964) — Victim
20. Crossing the Floor (1996) — Madam Speaker
21. Scully (1984) — Florrie
22. Dead Lucky (1988) — Mrs Gogarty
23. Wings of Death (1985) — Mum / Landlady
24. Duel of Hearts (1992) — Landlady
25. Albion Market (1985)
26. Can You Hear Me Thinking? (1990) — Rosemary
27. Belfry Witches (1999)