Paula Jacobs
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1932
- Place of birth
- Liverpool, England, UK
- Died
- June 26, 2021
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), 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).
Movies with Paula Jacobs
- An American Werewolf in London 1981 · ★ 7.4
- The Remains of the Day 1993 · ★ 7.4
- We Think the World of You 1988 · ★ 6.4
- Birth of the Beatles 1979 · ★ 6.5
- To the Lighthouse 1983 · ★ 5.2
- She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas 1984 · ★ 5.2
- Crossing the Floor 1996 · ★ 6.8
- Dead Lucky 1988 · ★ 4.0
- Wings of Death 1985 · ★ 7.0
- Duel of Hearts 1992 · ★ 7.0
- Can You Hear Me Thinking? 1990 · ★ 8.5