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Sonia Dresdel
Acting

Sonia Dresdel
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1909-05-05,Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

The Fallen Idol

7.2

The Fallen Idol
1948-09-30

The Clouded Yellow

6.3

The Clouded Yellow
1950-11-21

6.9

The Break
1963-07-07

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

6.4

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960-05-28

The Third Visitor

6.2

The Third Visitor
1951-01-31

6.9

While I Live
1947-10-07

The World Owes Me a Living

8

The World Owes Me a Living
1945-01-01

Lady Caroline Lamb

5.9

Lady Caroline Lamb
1972-11-22

Now and Forever

7

Now and Forever
1956-09-10

This Was a Woman

5.7

This Was a Woman
1948-01-27

Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary

0

Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
1970-06-25

The Adventures of Alice

0

The Adventures of Alice
1960-12-23

Lizzie Dripping

7

Lizzie Dripping
1973-03-13

8

The Caesars
1968-09-22

7.1

Maigret
1960-10-31

Mystery of Edwin Drood

0

Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960-09-28

The Human Jungle

8.2

The Human Jungle
1963-03-30

The Onedin Line

7

The Onedin Line
1971-10-15

6.7

Sykes
1972-09-14

6.7

Sykes
1972-09-14

BBC Play of the Month

5.2

BBC Play of the Month
1965-10-19

The Man in the Iron Mask

8

The Man in the Iron Mask
1968-07-28

The Mill on the Floss

9

The Mill on the Floss
1965-02-21

Mystery and Imagination

5.8

Mystery and Imagination
1966-01-29

6.4

The Pallisers
1974-01-19

Armchair Theatre

6

Armchair Theatre
1956-07-08

Armchair Theatre

6

Armchair Theatre
1956-07-08

Thirty-Minute Theatre

4.2

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965-10-07

North and South

0

North and South
1966-09-20

Wives and Daughters

0

Wives and Daughters
1971-11-14

0

City '68
1967-12-08

0

Jane Eyre
1963-04-07

David Copperfield

0

David Copperfield
1956-09-28

0

Boy Meets Girl
1967-08-04