
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).
Attachments
2000 · Rosa
tvCI5: The New Professionals
1999
tvBelfry Witches
1999
tvMidsomer Murders
1997 · Mrs. Bosworth
movieCrossing the Floor
1996 · Madam Speaker
movieThe Remains of the Day
1993 · Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
movieDuel of Hearts
1992 · Landlady
movieCan You Hear Me Thinking?
1990 · Rosemary
tvJeeves and Wooster
1990 · Maud Wilberforce
tvBirds of a Feather
1989 · Mrs. Belloc
tvMay to December
1989 · Doreen
movieWe Think the World of You
1988 · Deirdre
movieDead Lucky
1988 · Mrs Gogarty
tvThe New Statesman
1987 · Labour MP
tvCasualty
1986 · Iris Thompson
movieWings of Death
1985 · Mum / Landlady
Albion Market
1985
tvMapp & Lucia
1985 · Cook
tvScully
1984 · Florrie
movieShe'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984 · Doreen
movieTo the Lighthouse
1983 · Mildred
tvBergerac
1981 · Mrs. Frith
movieAn American Werewolf in London
1981 · Mrs. Kessler
tvHammer House of Horror
1980 · Joyce
movieBirth of the Beatles
1979 · Mrs Flemming
tvShoestring
1979 · Manageress
tvTheatre 625
1964 · Victim