Paula Jacobs
Actor
- Born
- January 1, 1932 · Liverpool, England, UK
- Died
- June 26, 2021 (age 89)
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
An American Werewolf in London
August 21, 1981
The Remains of the Day
November 5, 1993
We Think the World of You
December 22, 1988
Birth of the Beatles
November 23, 1979
To the Lighthouse
March 22, 1983
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
January 1, 1984
Crossing the Floor
October 5, 1996
Dead Lucky
January 17, 1988
Wings of Death
October 3, 1985
Duel of Hearts
January 1, 1992
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
September 30, 1990
Acting11
- 1996Crossing the Floor as Madam Speaker
- 1993The Remains of the Day as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
- 1992Duel of Hearts as Landlady
- 1990Can You Hear Me Thinking? as Rosemary
- 1988We Think the World of You as Deirdre
- 1988Dead Lucky as Mrs Gogarty
- 1985Wings of Death as Mum / Landlady
- 1984She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas as Doreen
- 1983To the Lighthouse as Mildred
- 1981An American Werewolf in London