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Sonia Dresdel

Sonia Dresdel

Known For Acting
Birthday May 05, 1909
Died Jan 18, 1976 (66)
Birthplace Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Popularity 0.3 (history)
Updated Aug 08, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 gr ... eat 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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Lady Caroline Lamb

Lady Caroline Lamb

1972

as Lady Pont

The Break

The Break

1963

as Sarah

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

1960

as Lady Wilde

Now and Forever

Now and Forever

1956

as Miss Fox

The Third Visitor

The Third Visitor

1951

as Steffy Millington

The Clouded Yellow

The Clouded Yellow

1950

as Jess Fenton

This Was a Woman

This Was a Woman

1948

as Sylvia Russell

The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol

1948

as Mrs. Baines

While I Live

While I Live

1947

as Julia Trevelyan

The World Owes Me a Living

The World Owes Me a Living

1945

as Eve Heathley

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Television Credits

Lizzie Dripping

as The Witch

Episodes: 9

First Aired: Mar 13, 1973

The Caesars

as Livia

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Sep 22, 1968

The Human Jungle

as Agnes

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 30, 1963

The Onedin Line

as Lady Lazenby

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 15, 1971

Sykes

as Lady Dorothy

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1972

Sykes

as Agatha Millhampton

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 14, 1972

The Strauss Family

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Nov 07, 1972

Mystery of Edwin Drood

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Sep 28, 1960

Mystery and Imagination

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 29, 1966

Maigret

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 31, 1960

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