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