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 (30 titles)
6.4ShowThe Pallisers
Marchioness of Auld Reekie · 1974
7.0ShowLizzie Dripping
The Witch · 1973
5.9MovieLady Caroline Lamb
Lady Pont · 1972
6.7ShowSykes
Lady Dorothy · 1972
ShowWives and Daughters
Lady Cumnor · 1971
7.0ShowThe Onedin Line
Lady Lazenby · 1971
MovieMarie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Professor Louise Mellroy · 1970
8.0ShowThe Caesars
Livia · 1968
8.0ShowThe Man in the Iron Mask
Duchesse de Chevreuse · 1968
City '68
Mrs. Ralston · 1967
ShowBoy Meets Girl
Principessa di San Fernando · 1967
North and South
Mrs. Thornton · 1966
5.8ShowMystery and Imagination
Countess · 1966
5.3ShowBBC Play of the Month
Headmistress · 1965
4.2ShowThirty-Minute Theatre
Annie · 1965
The Mill on the Floss
Mrs. Glegg · 1965
6.9MovieThe Break
Sarah · 1963
8.2ShowThe Human Jungle
Agnes · 1963
The Adventures of Alice
Red Queen · 1960
7.1ShowMaigret
1960
Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960
6.3MovieThe Trials of Oscar Wilde
Lady Wilde · 1960
7.0MovieNow and Forever
Miss Fox · 1956
6.0ShowArmchair Theatre
Olivia Russell · 1956
6.3MovieThe Third Visitor
Steffy Millington · 1951
6.3MovieThe Clouded Yellow
Jess Fenton · 1950
7.2MovieThe Fallen Idol
Mrs. Baines · 1948
5.7MovieThis Was a Woman
Sylvia Russell · 1948
6.9MovieWhile I Live
Julia Trevelyan · 1947
8.0MovieThe World Owes Me a Living
Eve Heathley · 1945