Sonia Dresdel (5 May 1909 - 18 January 1976) was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s.
Sonia Dresdel (5 May 1909 - 18 January 1976) was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s.
She was born Lois Obee in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England and was educated at Aberdeen High School for Girls.
Her leading role in the 1947 film While I Live gained her a great deal of acclaim. In the film she plays Julia Trevelyan, a spinster living in a lonely cliff top house in Cornwall and haunted by the death of her sister 25 years earlier.
Her most noted role was that of "Mrs. Baines" in the 1948 film version of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, which starred Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan.
The film received Academy Awards nominations for Best Director (Sir Carol Reed) and Best Screenplay.
She died of undisclosed causes, aged 66.
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Filmography (Movies)
Lady Caroline Lamb
Character:Lady Pont
Release Date:22/11/1972
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Character:Professor Louise Mellroy
Release Date:25/06/1970
The Break
Character:Sarah
Release Date:07/07/1963
The Adventures of Alice
Character:Red Queen
Release Date:23/12/1960
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Character:Lady Wilde
Release Date:28/05/1960
Now and Forever
Character:Miss Fox
Release Date:10/09/1956
The Third Visitor
Character:Steffy Millington
Release Date:31/01/1951
The Clouded Yellow
Character:Jess Fenton
Release Date:21/11/1950
The Fallen Idol
Character:Mrs. Baines
Release Date:30/09/1948
This Was a Woman
Character:Sylvia Russell
Release Date:27/01/1948
While I Live
Character:Julia Trevelyan
Release Date:07/10/1947
The World Owes Me a Living
Character:Eve Heathley
Release Date:01/01/1945
Television Appearances
Lizzie Dripping
Character:The Witch
Sykes
Character:Lady Dorothy
Sykes
Character:Agatha Millhampton
The Onedin Line
Character:Lady Lazenby
The Caesars
Character:Livia
The Man in the Iron Mask
Character:Duchesse de Chevreuse
Mystery and Imagination
Character:Countess
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Headmistress
The Mill on the Floss
Character:Mrs. Glegg
The Human Jungle
Character:Agnes
Maigret
Character:
Mystery of Edwin Drood
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