Sonia Dresdel
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.
The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. BainesPhillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of...
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady WildeEngland, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest...
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Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady PontLady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet...
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The Clouded Yellow
as Jess FentonAfter leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work...
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Now and Forever
as Miss FoxA 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 RussellThe woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she...
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While I Live
as Julia TrevelyanIn 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability...
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The Third Visitor
as Steffy MillingtonSuave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all...
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The Break
as SarahA group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but...
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The World Owes Me a Living
as Eve HeathleyWhen a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside...
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Maigret
as uncreditedBBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...
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Sykes
as Lady DorothyClassic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to...
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Sykes
as Agatha MillhamptonClassic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to...
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The Onedin Line
as Lady LazenbyThe 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 AgnesThe Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...
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Mystery and Imagination
as uncreditedMystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...
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The Caesars
as LiviaThe Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in...
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Lizzie Dripping
as The WitchLizzie Dripping was a British television children's programme produced by the BBC in 1973 and...
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