Sonia Dresdel

Sonia Dresdel

Birthday: 1909-05-05

Deathday: 1976-01-18

Place of birth: Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK

Also known as: Lois Obee

imdb_id: nm0237520

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.

Played in movies:

The Fallen Idol

Score: 7.2

Now and Forever

Score: 7.0

While I Live

Score: 6.6

The Break

Score: 6.5

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Score: 6.4

The Clouded Yellow

Score: 6.2

This Was a Woman

Score: 6.0

The World Owes Me a Living

Score: 6.0

The Third Visitor

Score: 6.0

Lady Caroline Lamb

Score: 5.8

The Adventures of Alice

Score: 0.0

Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Human Jungle

Score: 8.2

The Caesars

Score: 7.8

Maigret

Score: 6.9

The Onedin Line

Score: 6.8

Sykes

Score: 6.4

Sykes

Score: 6.4

Lizzie Dripping

Score: 6.0

Mystery and Imagination

Score: 5.5

BBC Play of the Month

Score: 5.0

The Mill on the Floss

Score: 0.0

The Man in the Iron Mask

Score: 0.0

Mystery of Edwin Drood

Score: 0.0