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.

Known For

BBC Play of the Month

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Maigret

The Onedin Line

Mystery and Imagination

Sykes

Sykes

The Human Jungle

All Movies (12)

• Lady Caroline Lamb1972 · as Lady Pont
• Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary1970 · as Professor Louise Mellroy
• The Break1963 · as Sarah
• The Adventures of Alice1960 · as Red Queen
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde1960 · as Lady Wilde
• Now and Forever1956 · as Miss Fox
• The Third Visitor1951 · as Steffy Millington
• The Clouded Yellow1950 · as Jess Fenton
• The Fallen Idol1948 · as Mrs. Baines
• This Was a Woman1948 · as Sylvia Russell
• While I Live1947 · as Julia Trevelyan
• The World Owes Me a Living1945 · as Eve Heathley

All TV Shows (17)

• The Pallisers1974 · as Marchioness of Auld Reekie
• Lizzie Dripping1973 · as The Witch
• Sykes1972 · as Lady Dorothy
• Sykes1972 · as Agatha Millhampton
• The Onedin Line1971 · as Lady Lazenby
• The Caesars1968 · as Livia
• The Man in the Iron Mask1968 · as Duchesse de Chevreuse
• Boy Meets Girl1967 · as Principessa di San Fernando
• Mystery and Imagination1966 · as Countess
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Headmistress
• Thirty-Minute Theatre1965 · as Annie
• The Mill on the Floss1965 · as Mrs. Glegg
• The Human Jungle1963 · as Agnes
• Maigret1960
• Mystery of Edwin Drood1960
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Olivia Russell
• Armchair Theatre1956