- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- May 5, 1909
- Place of Birth
- Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Died
- January 18, 1976
Sonia Dresdel
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
tvThe Pallisers
1974 · Marchioness of Auld Reekie
tvLizzie Dripping
1973 · The Witch
movieLady Caroline Lamb
1972 · Lady Pont
tvSykes
1972 · Lady Dorothy, Agatha Millhampton
tvWives and Daughters
1971 · Lady Cumnor
tvThe Onedin Line
1971 · Lady Lazenby
movieMarie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
1970 · Professor Louise Mellroy
tvThe Caesars
1968 · Livia
tvThe Man in the Iron Mask
1968 · Duchesse de Chevreuse
City '68
tvCity '68
1967 · Mrs. Ralston
tvBoy Meets Girl
1967 · Principessa di San Fernando
North and South
tvNorth and South
1966 · Mrs. Thornton
tvMystery and Imagination
1966 · Countess
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965 · Headmistress
tvThirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Annie
The Mill on the Floss
tvThe Mill on the Floss
1965 · Mrs. Glegg
movieThe Break
1963 · Sarah
tvThe Human Jungle
1963 · Agnes
The Adventures of Alice
movieThe Adventures of Alice
1960 · Red Queen
tvMaigret
1960
Mystery of Edwin Drood
tvMystery of Edwin Drood
1960
movieThe Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960 · Lady Wilde
movieNow and Forever
1956 · Miss Fox
tvArmchair Theatre
1956 · Olivia Russell
movieThe Third Visitor
1951 · Steffy Millington
movieThe Clouded Yellow
1950 · Jess Fenton
movieThe Fallen Idol
1948 · Mrs. Baines
movieThis Was a Woman
1948 · Sylvia Russell
movieWhile I Live
1947 · Julia Trevelyan
movieThe World Owes Me a Living
1945 · Eve Heathley