Sonia Dresdel

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Sonia Dresdel

Acting May 5, 1909

Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK

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, En…

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BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

5.2 1965 TV Show
The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol

7.2 1948 Movie
Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre

4.3 1965 TV Show
Maigret

Maigret

7.1 1960 TV Show
Mystery and Imagination

Mystery and Imagination

5.8 1966 TV Show
Sykes

Sykes

6.7 1972 TV Show
The Pallisers

The Pallisers

6.4 1974 TV Show
The Onedin Line

The Onedin Line

7.0 1971 TV Show
The Human Jungle

The Human Jungle

8.2 1963 TV Show
The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

6.4 1960 Movie
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1963 TV Show
Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl

1967 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1974
    The Pallisers

    TV show Marchioness of Auld Reekie

  2. 1973
    Lizzie Dripping

    TV show The Witch

  3. 1972
    Lady Caroline Lamb

    Movie Lady Pont

  4. 1972
    Sykes

    TV show Lady Dorothy

  5. 1971
    Wives and Daughters

    TV show Lady Cumnor

  6. 1971
    The Onedin Line

    TV show Lady Lazenby

  7. 1970
    Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary

    Movie Professor Louise Mellroy

  8. 1968
    The Caesars

    TV show Livia

  9. 1968
    The Man in the Iron Mask

    TV show Duchesse de Chevreuse

  10. 1967
    City '68

    TV show Mrs. Ralston

  11. 1967
    Boy Meets Girl

    TV show Principessa di San Fernando

  12. 1966
    North and South

    TV show Mrs. Thornton

  13. 1966
    Mystery and Imagination

    TV show Countess

  14. 1965
    BBC Play of the Month

    TV show Headmistress

  15. 1965
    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    TV show Annie

  16. 1965
    The Mill on the Floss

    TV show Mrs. Glegg

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  1. 1963
    The Break

    Movie Sarah

  2. 1963
    Jane Eyre

    TV show Mrs. Reed

  3. 1963
    The Human Jungle

    TV show Agnes

  4. 1960
    The Adventures of Alice

    Movie Red Queen

  5. 1960
    Maigret

    TV show

  6. 1960
    Mystery of Edwin Drood

    TV show

  7. 1960
    The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    Movie Lady Wilde

  8. 1956
    David Copperfield

    TV show Miss Betsey Trotwood

  9. 1956
    Now and Forever

    Movie Miss Fox

  10. 1956
    Armchair Theatre

    TV show Olivia Russell

  11. 1951
    The Third Visitor

    Movie Steffy Millington

  12. 1950
    The Clouded Yellow

    Movie Jess Fenton

  13. 1948
    The Fallen Idol

    Movie Mrs. Baines

  14. 1948
    This Was a Woman

    Movie Sylvia Russell

  15. 1947
    While I Live

    Movie Julia Trevelyan

  16. 1945
    The World Owes Me a Living

    Movie Eve Heathley