Sonia Dresdel
Acting
Born 1909-05-05
Died 1976-01-18
Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
31 credits
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
29 credits
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Sykes
The Onedin Line
Mystery and Imagination
The Human Jungle
The Pallisers
City '68
The Caesars
Boy Meets Girl
Lizzie Dripping
The Fallen Idol
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Armchair Theatre
Jane Eyre
Lady Caroline Lamb
The Clouded Yellow
The Mill on the Floss
North and South
Wives and Daughters
Now and Forever
The Adventures of Alice
The Break
This Was a Woman
While I Live
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
The Third Visitor
The World Owes Me a Living
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