Paula Jacobs

Born: 1932-01-01

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).


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An American Werewolf in London

as Mrs. Kessler
Released: 1981-08-21

American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on...

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The Remains of the Day

as Mrs. Mortimer, the cook
Released: 1993-11-05

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested...

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Birth of The Beatles

as Mrs Flemming
Released: 1979-11-23

The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in...

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We Think the World of You

as Deirdre
Released: 1988-12-22

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of...

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Duel of Hearts

as Landlady
Released: 1992-01-01

Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is...

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Can You Hear Me Thinking?

as Rosemary
Released: 1990-09-30

Real life husband and wife Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in this Screen One film as the...

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Crossing the Floor

as Madam Speaker
Released: 1996-10-05

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving...

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She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas

as Doreen
Released: 1984-01-01

A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have...

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Dead Lucky

as Mrs Gogarty
Released: 1988-01-17

Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he...

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Wings of Death

as Mum / Landlady
Released: 1985-10-03

In the revolting and decaying Byzantium Hotel, young heroin addict Alex, played by Dexter...

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Midsomer Murders

as Mrs. Bosworth
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Birds of a Feather

as Mrs. Belloc
First aired: 1989-10-16

Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on...

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Casualty

as Iris Thompson
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Bergerac

as Mrs. Frith
First aired: 1981-10-18

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...

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Jeeves and Wooster

as Maud Wilberforce
First aired: 1990-04-22

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's...

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The New Statesman

as Labour MP
First aired: 1987-09-13

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the...

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Dalziel & Pascoe

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-03-16

British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in...

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Hammer House of Horror

as Joyce
First aired: 1980-09-13

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror....

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Shoestring

as uncredited
First aired: 1979-09-30

Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his...

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CI5: The New Professionals

as uncredited
First aired: 1999-09-19

In this 1998 re-imagining of the original The Professionals TV show, CI5 now has an...

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Anna Lee

as Receptionist
First aired: 1994-02-27

Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London...

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May to December

as Doreen
First aired: 1989-04-02

Comedy about a Pinner solictor who falls for a woman half his age.

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Scully

as Florrie
First aired: 1984-05-14

Scully was a British television drama with some comedy elements set in the city of Liverpool,...

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