Paula Jacobs
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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
Credits
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
as Mrs. Kessler
The Remains of the Day (1993)
as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Duel of Hearts (1992)
as Landlady
Crossing the Floor (1996)
as Madam Speaker
To the Lighthouse (1983)
as Mildred
Birth of the Beatles (1979)
as Mrs Flemming
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
Can You Hear Me Thinking? (1990)
as Rosemary