Sonia Dresdel
Born: 1909-05-05 in Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died: 1976-01-18
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1974
- The Pallisers as Marchioness of Auld Reekie
1973
- Lizzie Dripping as The Witch
1972
- Sykes as Lady Dorothy
- Lady Caroline Lamb as Lady Pont
1971
- The Onedin Line as Lady Lazenby
1970
- Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary as Professor Louise Mellroy
1968
- The Caesars as Livia
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Duchesse de Chevreuse
1966
- Mystery and Imagination as Countess
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Headmistress
- The Mill on the Floss as Mrs. Glegg
1963
- The Human Jungle as Agnes
- The Break as Sarah
1960
- Maigret
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde as Lady Wilde
- Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Adventures of Alice as Red Queen
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Olivia Russell
- 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
- This Was a Woman as Sylvia Russell
1947
- While I Live as Julia Trevelyan
1945
- The World Owes Me a Living as Eve Heathley