Sonia Dresdel
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.
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The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
1948
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
1960
This Was a Woman
as Sylvia Russell
1948
Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
1972
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
as Professor Louise Mellroy
1970
The World Owes Me a Living
as Eve Heathley
1945
The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
1950
While I Live
as Julia Trevelyan
1947
The Adventures of Alice
as Red Queen
1960
The Break
as Sarah
1963
Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
1956
The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
1951TV Shows 22
BBC Play of the Month
as Headmistress
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Annie
1965
Maigret
1960
Sykes
as Lady Dorothy
1972
Sykes
as Agatha Millhampton
1972
The Onedin Line
as Lady Lazenby
1971
The Pallisers
as Marchioness of Auld Reekie
1974
Mystery and Imagination
as Countess
1966
The Human Jungle
as Agnes
1963
Boy Meets Girl
as Principessa di San Fernando
1967
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Reed
1963
The Caesars
as Livia
1968
Armchair Theatre
as Olivia Russell
1956
Armchair Theatre
1956
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duchesse de Chevreuse
1968
City '68
as Mrs. Ralston
1967
Lizzie Dripping
as The Witch
1973
David Copperfield
as Miss Betsey Trotwood
1956
The Mill on the Floss
as Mrs. Glegg
1965
Wives and Daughters
as Lady Cumnor
1971
Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960
North and South
as Mrs. Thornton
1966