Sonia Dresdel
Sonia Dresdel
Person

Sonia Dresdel

Actor 1909-05-05 Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK

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...

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FILMOGRAPHY
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The Fallen Idol

The Fallen Idol

1948 · Mrs. Baines

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

1960 · Lady Wilde

The Clouded Yellow

The Clouded Yellow

1950 · Jess Fenton

Maigret

Maigret

1960 · TV

Lady Caroline Lamb

Lady Caroline Lamb

1972 · Lady Pont

This Was a Woman

This Was a Woman

1948 · Sylvia Russell

BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

1965 · Headmistress

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965 · Annie

The Break

The Break

1963 · Sarah

The Third Visitor

The Third Visitor

1951 · Steffy Millington

The Onedin Line

The Onedin Line

1971 · Lady Lazenby

While I Live

While I Live

1947 · Julia Trevelyan

Sykes

Sykes

1972 · Lady Dorothy

The Caesars

The Caesars

1968 · Livia

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre

1956 · Olivia Russell

Mystery and Imagination

Mystery and Imagination

1966 · Countess

The Human Jungle

The Human Jungle

1963 · Agnes

The Pallisers

The Pallisers

1974 · Marchioness of Auld Reekie