Paula Jacobs
Actor
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
The Remains of the Day
as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook 1993
We Think the World of You
as Deirdre 1988
Birth of The Beatles
as Mrs Flemming 1979
To the Lighthouse
as Mildred 1983
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
as Doreen 1984
Crossing the Floor
as Madam Speaker 1996
Dead Lucky
as Mrs Gogarty 1988
Duel of Hearts
as Landlady 1992
Wings of Death
as Mum / Landlady 1985