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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 5, 1909
Died
January 18, 1976
Place of Birth
Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Lois Obee
Sonia Dresdel
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.0
The Witch
Lizzie Dripping
1973
5.6
Lady Pont
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972
6.4
Lady Dorothy
Sykes
1972
6.4
Agatha Millhampton
Sykes
1972
6.8
Lady Lazenby
The Onedin Line
1971
0.0
Professor Louise Mellroy
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
1970
7.8
Livia
The Caesars
1968
0.0
Duchesse de Chevreuse
The Man in the Iron Mask
1968
5.5
Mystery and Imagination
1966
5.0
Headmistress
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Credits
Lizzie Dripping
as The Witch
1973
6.0
Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
1972
5.6
Sykes
as Lady Dorothy
1972
6.4
Sykes
as Agatha Millhampton
1972
6.4
The Onedin Line
as Lady Lazenby
1971
6.8
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
as Professor Louise Mellroy
1970
0.0
The Caesars
as Livia
1968
7.8
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duchesse de Chevreuse
1968
0.0
Mystery and Imagination
1966
5.5
BBC Play of the Month
as Headmistress
1965
5.0
🎬
The Mill on the Floss
as Mrs. Glegg
1965
0.0
The Break
as Sarah
1963
6.5
The Human Jungle
as Agnes
1963
8.2
🎬
The Adventures of Alice
as Red Queen
1960
0.0
Maigret
1960
7.2
🎬
Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960
0.0
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
1960
6.2
Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
1956
7.0
The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
1951
6.0
The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
1950
6.2
The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
1948
7.2
This Was a Woman
as Sylvia Russell
1948
5.4
While I Live
as Julia Trevelyan
1947
6.7
The World Owes Me a Living
as Eve Heathley
1945
6.0