Paula Jacobs
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 S...
Known For
Filmography
Attachments
2000
as Rosa
CI5: The New Professionals
1999
Belfry Witches
1999
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Mrs. Bosworth
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
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
as Maud Wilberforce
Birds of a Feather
1989
as Mrs. Belloc
May to December
1989
as Doreen
Dead Lucky
1988
as Mrs Gogarty
We Think the World of You
1988
as Deirdre
The New Statesman
1987
as Labour MP
Casualty
1986
as Iris Thompson
Wings of Death
1985
as Mum / Landlady
Albion Market
1985
Mapp & Lucia
1985
as Cook
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984
as Doreen
Scully
1984
as Florrie
To the Lighthouse
1983
as Mildred
An American Werewolf in London
1981
as Mrs. Kessler
Bergerac
1981
as Mrs. Frith
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as Joyce
Birth of the Beatles
1979
as Mrs Flemming
Shoestring
1979
as Manageress
Theatre 625
1964
as Victim