Paula Jacobs
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).
An American Werewolf in London
as Mrs. KesslerAmerican 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 cookA rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested...
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Duel of Hearts
as LandladyLady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is...
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We Think the World of You
as DeirdreAn aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of...
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She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
as DoreenA humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have...
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Birth of the Beatles
as Mrs FlemmingThe early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in...
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Dead Lucky
as Mrs GogartyMartin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he...
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Can You Hear Me Thinking?
as RosemaryReal 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 SpeakerPolitical satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving...
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Wings of Death
as Mum / LandladyIn the revolting and decaying Byzantium Hotel, young heroin addict Alex, played by Dexter...
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Midsomer Murders
as Mrs. BosworthThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Birds of a Feather
as Mrs. BellocBirds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on...
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Bergerac
as Mrs. FrithBergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the...
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The New Statesman
as Labour MPThe New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the...
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Jeeves and Wooster
as Maud WilberforceJeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's...
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Hammer House of Horror
as JoyceAnthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror....
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Dalziel & Pascoe
as uncreditedBritish crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in...
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Shoestring
as uncreditedShoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his...
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Casualty
as Iris ThompsonDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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CI5: The New Professionals
as uncreditedIn this 1998 re-imagining of the original The Professionals TV show, CI5 now has an...
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May to December
as DoreenComedy about a Pinner solictor who falls for a woman half his age.
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Scully
as FlorrieScully was a British television drama with some comedy elements set in the city of Liverpool,...
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Anna Lee
as ReceptionistAnna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London...
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