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).

Known For

Birds of a Feather

Mrs. Belloc

Dalziel & Pascoe

Midsomer Murders

Mrs. Bosworth

Jeeves and Wooster

Maud Wilberforce

Casualty

Iris Thompson

Bergerac

Mrs. Frith

Hammer House of Horror

Joyce

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1996	Crossing the Floor	Madam Speaker
1993	The Remains of the Day	Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
1992	Duel of Hearts	Landlady
1990	Can You Hear Me Thinking?	Rosemary
1988	Dead Lucky	Mrs Gogarty
1988	We Think the World of You	Deirdre
1985	Wings of Death	Mum / Landlady
1984	She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas	Doreen
1981	An American Werewolf in London	Mrs. Kessler
1979	Birth of The Beatles	Mrs Flemming

Year	TV Show	Role
2000	Attachments	Rosa
1999	CI5: The New Professionals
1999	Belfry Witches
1997	Midsomer Murders	Mrs. Bosworth
1996	Dalziel & Pascoe
1994	Anna Lee	Receptionist
1990	Jeeves and Wooster	Maud Wilberforce
1989	Birds of a Feather	Mrs. Belloc
1989	May to December	Doreen
1987	The New Statesman	Labour MP
1986	Casualty	Iris Thompson
1984	Scully	Florrie
1981	Bergerac	Mrs. Frith
1980	Hammer House of Horror	Joyce
1979	Shoestring
	Albion Market