7.2
Movie
Acting
Sonia Dresdel
- Born
- Died
- (aged 66)
- Birthplace
- Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 32 titles
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.
Signature work
Known For
7.2
Movie
6.4
Movie
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
6.3
Movie
The Clouded Yellow
5.9
Movie
Lady Caroline Lamb
7.1
TV
Maigret
5.7
Movie
This Was a Woman
6.9
Movie
The Break
6.2
Movie
The Third Visitor
5.2
TV
BBC Play of the Month
4.2
TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre
6.9
Movie
While I Live
7.0
TV
The Onedin Line
8.0
TV
The Caesars
6.7
TV
Sykes
6.0
TV
Armchair Theatre
7.0
Movie
Now and Forever
8.2
TV
The Human Jungle
5.8
TV
Mystery and Imagination
Acting credits 32
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | The Pallisers TV | Marchioness of Auld Reekie (4 ep) |
| 1973 | Lizzie Dripping TV | The Witch (9 ep) |
| 1972 | Lady Caroline Lamb Film | Lady Pont |
| 1972 | Sykes TV | Lady Dorothy, Agatha Millhampton (1 ep) |
| 1971 | Wives and Daughters TV | Lady Cumnor (6 ep) |
| 1971 | The Onedin Line TV | Lady Lazenby (1 ep) |
| 1970 | Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary Film | Professor Louise Mellroy |
| 1968 | The Caesars TV | Livia (6 ep) |
| 1968 | The Man in the Iron Mask TV | Duchesse de Chevreuse (1 ep) |
| 1967 | City '68 TV | Mrs. Ralston (1 ep) |
| 1967 | Boy Meets Girl TV | Principessa di San Fernando (1 ep) |
| 1966 | North and South TV | Mrs. Thornton (5 ep) |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination TV | Countess (1 ep) |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month TV | Headmistress (1 ep) |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre TV | Annie (1 ep) |
| 1965 | The Mill on the Floss TV | Mrs. Glegg (4 ep) |
| 1963 | The Break Film | Sarah |
| 1963 | Jane Eyre TV | Mrs. Reed (6 ep) |
| 1963 | The Human Jungle TV | Agnes (1 ep) |
| 1960 | The Adventures of Alice Film | Red Queen |
| 1960 | Maigret TV | (1 ep) |
| 1960 | Mystery of Edwin Drood TV | (5 ep) |
| 1960 | The Trials of Oscar Wilde Film | Lady Wilde |
| 1956 | David Copperfield TV | Miss Betsey Trotwood (13 ep) |
| 1956 | Now and Forever Film | Miss Fox |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre TV | Olivia Russell (1 ep) |
| 1951 | The Third Visitor Film | Steffy Millington |
| 1950 | The Clouded Yellow Film | Jess Fenton |
| 1948 | The Fallen Idol Film | Mrs. Baines |
| 1948 | This Was a Woman Film | Sylvia Russell |
| 1947 | While I Live Film | Julia Trevelyan |
| 1945 | The World Owes Me a Living Film | Eve Heathley |