Acting credits
21
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Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Sonia Dresdel
Acting
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Movies: 11Series: 10
TMDB ID: 87745
IMDb ID: nm0237520
Known for: Acting
Born: May 5, 1909
Died: January 18, 1976
Age: 66
Place of birth: Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1945 - 1974
Years active: 30
Average TMDB rating: 6.52
Wikidata: Q7561701
Also known as
Lois Obee
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Sonia Dresdel.
5.6
Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
1972 Movie
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
as Professor Louise Mellroy
1970 Movie
6.5
The Break
as Sarah
1963 Movie
6.2
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
1960 Movie
7.0
Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
1956 Movie
6.0
The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
1951 Movie
6.2
The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
1950 Movie
7.2
The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
1948 Movie
5.4
This Was a Woman
as Sylvia Russell
1948 Movie
6.7
While I Live
as Julia Trevelyan
1947 Movie
6.0
The World Owes Me a Living
as Eve Heathley
1945 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Sonia Dresdel.
6.7
The Pallisers
as Marchioness of Auld Reekie • 4 eps
1974 Series
6.0
Lizzie Dripping
as The Witch • 9 eps
1973 Series
6.4
Sykes
as Lady Dorothy • 1 eps
1972 Series
6.8
The Onedin Line
as Lady Lazenby • 1 eps
1971 Series
7.8
The Caesars
as Livia • 6 eps
1968 Series
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duchesse de Chevreuse • 1 eps
1968 Series
5.5
Mystery and Imagination
as Countess • 1 eps
1966 Series
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Headmistress • 1 eps
1965 Series
8.2
The Human Jungle
as Agnes • 1 eps
1963 Series
7.2
Maigret
1 eps
1960 Series