Sonia Dresdel
Acting
1909-05-05 · Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography(28)
tvThe Pallisers
as Marchioness of Auld Reekie · 1974 · 6.4
tvLizzie Dripping
as The Witch · 1973 · 7.0
movieLady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont · 1972 · 5.9
tvSykes
as Lady Dorothy · 1972 · 6.7
tvSykes
as Agatha Millhampton · 1972 · 6.7
tvThe Onedin Line
as Lady Lazenby · 1971 · 7.0
movieMarie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
as Professor Louise Mellroy · 1970 · 0.0
tvThe Caesars
as Livia · 1968 · 8.0
tvThe Man in the Iron Mask
as Duchesse de Chevreuse · 1968 · 8.0
tvBoy Meets Girl
as Principessa di San Fernando · 1967 · 0.0
tvMystery and Imagination
as Countess · 1966 · 5.8
tvBBC Play of the Month
as Headmistress · 1965 · 5.3
tvThe Mill on the Floss
as Mrs. Glegg · 1965 · 9.0
movieThe Break
as Sarah · 1963 · 6.9
tvThe Human Jungle
as Agnes · 1963 · 8.2
movieThe Adventures of Alice
as Red Queen · 1960 · 0.0
tvMaigret
as · 1960 · 7.1
tvMystery of Edwin Drood
as · 1960 · 0.0
movieThe Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde · 1960 · 6.3
movieNow and Forever
as Miss Fox · 1956 · 7.0
tvArmchair Theatre
as Olivia Russell · 1956 · 6.0
tvArmchair Theatre
as · 1956 · 6.0
movieThe Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington · 1951 · 6.3
movieThe Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton · 1950 · 6.3