Sonia Dresdel
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 5, 1909
- Died
- January 18, 1976 (aged 66)
- Birthplace
- Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Photos
Filmography
The Pallisers
TV · as Marchioness of Auld Reekie · 4 eps
Lizzie Dripping
TV · as The Witch · 9 eps
Lady Caroline Lamb
Movie · as Lady Pont
Sykes
TV · as Lady Dorothy, Agatha Millhampton · 1 ep
The Onedin Line
TV · as Lady Lazenby · 1 ep
Wives and Daughters
TV · as Lady Cumnor · 6 eps
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Movie · as Professor Louise Mellroy
The Caesars
TV · as Livia · 6 eps
The Man in the Iron Mask
TV · as Duchesse de Chevreuse · 1 ep
City '68
TV · as Mrs. Ralston · 1 ep
Boy Meets Girl
TV · as Principessa di San Fernando · 1 ep
Mystery and Imagination
TV · as Countess · 1 ep
North and South
TV · as Mrs. Thornton · 5 eps
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Headmistress · 1 ep
The Mill on the Floss
TV · as Mrs. Glegg · 4 eps
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Annie · 1 ep
The Break
Movie · as Sarah
The Human Jungle
TV · as Agnes · 1 ep
Jane Eyre
TV · as Mrs. Reed · 6 eps
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Movie · as Lady Wilde
The Adventures of Alice
Movie · as Red Queen
Maigret
TV · 1 ep
Mystery of Edwin Drood
TV · 5 eps
Now and Forever
Movie · as Miss Fox
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Olivia Russell · 1 ep
David Copperfield
TV · as Miss Betsey Trotwood · 13 eps
The Third Visitor
Movie · as Steffy Millington
The Clouded Yellow
Movie · as Jess Fenton
The Fallen Idol
Movie · as Mrs. Baines
This Was a Woman
Movie · as Sylvia Russell
While I Live
Movie · as Julia Trevelyan
The World Owes Me a Living
Movie · as Eve Heathley