Sonia Dresdel

Born: 1909-05-05

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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The Fallen Idol

as Mrs. Baines
Released: 1948-09-30

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of...

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The Break

as Sarah
Released: 1963-07-07

A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but...

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The Clouded Yellow

as Jess Fenton
Released: 1950-11-21

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work...

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde

as Lady Wilde
Released: 1960-05-28

England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest...

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Lady Caroline Lamb

as Lady Pont
Released: 1972-11-22

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet...

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Now and Forever

as Miss Fox
Released: 1956-09-10

A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops...

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This Was a Woman

as Sylvia Russell
Released: 1948-01-27

The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to...

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The World Owes Me a Living

as Eve Heathley
Released: 1945-01-01

When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside...

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While I Live

as Julia Trevelyan
Released: 1947-10-07

In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability...

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The Third Visitor

as Steffy Millington
Released: 1951-01-31

Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all...

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The Onedin Line

as Lady Lazenby
First aired: 1971-10-15

The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was...

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The Human Jungle

as Agnes
First aired: 1963-03-30

The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...

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Maigret

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-31

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...

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Mystery and Imagination

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-01-29

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...

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The Caesars

as Livia
First aired: 1968-09-22

The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in...

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Lizzie Dripping

as The Witch
First aired: 1973-03-13

Lizzie Dripping was a British television children's programme produced by the BBC in 1973 and...

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