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Paula Jacobs

Nacimiento : 1932-01-01, Liverpool, England, UK

Muerte : 2021-06-26

Historia

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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Películas

Crossing the Floor

Madam Speaker

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.

Lo que queda del día

Mrs. Mortimer, the cook

Stevens es el perfecto mayordomo inglés, un ideal que lleva hasta el extremo al servicio de su señor, Lord Darlington. Como muchos otros miembros de la aristocracia británica en los años 30, Darlington es captado por los nazis para intentar establecer una vía de comunicación con el gobierno del Reino Unido. La señorita Kenton es el ama de llaves de la mansión, una mujer joven y llena de vida que contempla horrorizada lo que sucede escaleras arriba. A pesar de sus temores, ella y Stevens se van enamorando poco a poco, aunque ninguno de ellos quiera reconocerlo.

Duel of Hearts

Landlady

Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

Real life husband and wife Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in this Screen One film as the parents of teenage boy diagnosed with schizophrenia

We Think the World of You

Deirdre

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas

Doreen

A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunteered for a rugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes.

Un hombre lobo americano en Londres

Mrs. Kessler

Dos mochileros norteamericanos, David Kessler y Jack están de viaje por Europa. Caminando por una zona rural de Inglaterra, la población local los mira mal cuando entran en un bar. Al salir, reciben todo tipo de extrañas advertencias: 'Manténganse en la carretera y aléjense de los pantanos' y 'Cuidado con la luna'. Aun así, los jóvenes se adentran en la oscuridad y no se dan cuenta que están siendo seguidos por una terrible criatura.

Birth of the Beatles

Mrs Flemming

The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool to their triumph on "The Ed Sullivan Show."