Personal Info
Paula Elsa Jacobs
Paula Jacobs
Acting
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), F…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Crossing the Floor
as Madam Speaker
The Remains of the Day
as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Duel of Hearts
as Landlady
Can You Hear Me Thinking?
as Rosemary
Dead Lucky
as Mrs Gogarty
We Think the World of You
as Deirdre
Wings of Death
as Mum / Landlady
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
as Doreen
To the Lighthouse
as Mildred
An American Werewolf in London
as Mrs. Kessler
TV Shows
Attachments
as Rosa · 1 ep.
CI5: The New Professionals
1 ep.
Belfry Witches
13 ep.
Midsomer Murders
as Mrs. Bosworth · 1 ep.
Dalziel & Pascoe
1 ep.
Jeeves and Wooster
as Maud Wilberforce · 1 ep.
Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. Belloc · 1 ep.
May to December
as Doreen · 1 ep.
The New Statesman
as Labour MP · 1 ep.
Casualty
as Iris Thompson · 1 ep.