Paula Jacobs

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Paula Jacobs

Acting January 1, 1932

Liverpool, England, UK

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 wa…

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An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London

7.4 1981 Movie
Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

7.5 1997 TV Show
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

7.4 1993 Movie
Casualty

Casualty

6.2 1986 TV Show
Bergerac

Bergerac

7.0 1981 TV Show
Theatre 625

Theatre 625

7.2 1964 TV Show
Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster

8.1 1990 TV Show
Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

6.3 1989 TV Show
Hammer House of Horror

Hammer House of Horror

7.1 1980 TV Show
The New Statesman

The New Statesman

7.5 1987 TV Show
Shoestring

Shoestring

7.7 1979 TV Show
Mapp & Lucia

Mapp & Lucia

6.3 1985 TV Show

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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).

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2000
    Attachments

    TV show Rosa

  2. 1999
    CI5: The New Professionals

    TV show

  3. 1999
    Belfry Witches

    TV show

  4. 1997
    Midsomer Murders

    TV show Mrs. Bosworth

  5. 1996
    Crossing the Floor

    Movie Madam Speaker

  6. 1993
    The Remains of the Day

    Movie Mrs. Mortimer, the cook

  7. 1992
    Duel of Hearts

    Movie Landlady

  8. 1990
    Can You Hear Me Thinking?

    Movie Rosemary

  9. 1990
    Jeeves and Wooster

    TV show Maud Wilberforce

  10. 1989
    Birds of a Feather

    TV show Mrs. Belloc

  11. 1989
    May to December

    TV show Doreen

  12. 1988
    We Think the World of You

    Movie Deirdre

  13. 1988
    Dead Lucky

    Movie Mrs Gogarty

  14. 1987
    The New Statesman

    TV show Labour MP

  15. 1986
    Casualty

    TV show Iris Thompson

  16. 1985
    Wings of Death

    Movie Mum / Landlady

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  1. 1985
    Albion Market

    TV show

  2. 1985
    Mapp & Lucia

    TV show Cook

  3. 1984
    Scully

    TV show Florrie

  4. 1984
    She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas

    Movie Doreen

  5. 1983
    To the Lighthouse

    Movie Mildred

  6. 1981
    Bergerac

    TV show Mrs. Frith

  7. 1981
    An American Werewolf in London

    Movie Mrs. Kessler

  8. 1980
    Hammer House of Horror

    TV show Joyce

  9. 1979
    Birth of the Beatles

    Movie Mrs Flemming

  10. 1979
    Shoestring

    TV show Manageress

  11. 1964
    Theatre 625

    TV show Victim