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.
Known For
Credits
- 1973 · Lizzie Dripping as The Witch
- 1972 · Lady Caroline Lamb as Lady Pont
- 1972 · The Strauss Family as
- 1972 · Sykes as Lady Dorothy
- 1972 · Sykes as Agatha Millhampton
- 1971 · The Onedin Line as Lady Lazenby
- 1968 · The Caesars as Livia
- 1966 · Mystery and Imagination as
- 1963 · The Break as Sarah
- 1963 · The Human Jungle as Agnes
- 1960 · Maigret as
- 1960 · Mystery of Edwin Drood as
- 1960 · The Trials of Oscar Wilde as Lady Wilde
- 1956 · Now and Forever as Miss Fox
- 1951 · The Third Visitor as Steffy Millington
- 1950 · The Clouded Yellow as Jess Fenton
- 1948 · The Fallen Idol as Mrs. Baines
- 1948 · This Was a Woman as Sylvia Russell
- 1947 · While I Live as Julia Trevelyan
- 1945 · The World Owes Me a Living as Eve Heathley