Sonia Dresdel

Sonia Dresdel

Known for

Acting

Born

May 5, 1909

Birthplace

Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK

Died

January 18, 1976 (aged 66)

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 (S...

Best known work

The Fallen Idol
The Fallen Idol
1948
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960
The Clouded Yellow
The Clouded Yellow
1950
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972
Maigret
Maigret
1960
This Was a Woman
This Was a Woman
1948
The Break
The Break
1963
The Third Visitor
The Third Visitor
1951
BBC Play of the Month
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965

Filmography

  1. 1974

    The PallisersTV

    as Marchioness of Auld Reekie (4 episodes)

  2. 1973

    Lizzie DrippingTV

    as The Witch (9 episodes)

  3. 1972

    Lady Caroline Lamb

    as Lady Pont

  4. 1972

    SykesTV

    as Lady Dorothy (1 episode), as Agatha Millhampton (1 episode)

  5. 1971

    Wives and DaughtersTV

    as Lady Cumnor (6 episodes)

  6. 1971

    The Onedin LineTV

    as Lady Lazenby (1 episode)

  7. 1970

    Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary

    as Professor Louise Mellroy

  8. 1968

    The CaesarsTV

    as Livia (6 episodes)

  9. 1968

    The Man in the Iron MaskTV

    as Duchesse de Chevreuse (1 episode)

  10. 1967

    City '68TV

    as Mrs. Ralston (1 episode)

  11. 1967

    Boy Meets GirlTV

    as Principessa di San Fernando (1 episode)

  12. 1966

    North and SouthTV

    as Mrs. Thornton (5 episodes)

  13. 1966

    Mystery and ImaginationTV

    as Countess (1 episode)

  14. 1965

    BBC Play of the MonthTV

    as Headmistress (1 episode)

  15. 1965

    Thirty-Minute TheatreTV

    as Annie (1 episode)

  16. 1965

    The Mill on the FlossTV

    as Mrs. Glegg (4 episodes)

  17. 1963

    The Break

    as Sarah

  18. 1963

    Jane EyreTV

    as Mrs. Reed (6 episodes)

  19. 1963

    The Human JungleTV

    as Agnes (1 episode)

  20. 1960

    The Adventures of Alice

    as Red Queen

  21. 1960

    MaigretTV

  22. 1960

    Mystery of Edwin DroodTV

  23. 1960

    The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    as Lady Wilde

  24. 1956

    David CopperfieldTV

    as Miss Betsey Trotwood (13 episodes)

  25. 1956

    Now and Forever

    as Miss Fox

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