Actor
Sonia Dresdel
Born May 5, 1909 in Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UKDied January 18, 197612 films
Sonia Dresdel (5 May 1909 - 18 January 1976) was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s.
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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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First watchThe Fallen Idol19487.2as Mrs. BainesPhillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and…View filmFilmography
12 films as actor- 1972Lady Caroline LambLady Pont
- 1970Marie Stopes: Sexual RevolutionaryProfessor Louise Mellroy
- 1963The BreakSarah
- 1960The Adventures of AliceRed Queen
- 1960The Trials of Oscar WildeLady Wilde
- 1956Now and ForeverMiss Fox
- 1951The Third VisitorSteffy Millington
- 1950The Clouded YellowJess Fenton
- 1948The Fallen IdolMrs. Baines
- 1948This Was a WomanSylvia Russell
- 1947While I LiveJulia Trevelyan
- 1945The World Owes Me a LivingEve Heathley