Cast & creator
Sonia Dresdel
Best known for BBC Play of the Month, Thirty-Minute Theatre, Maigret
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.
Also known as: Lois Obee
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film credits
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television credits
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1945–1974 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (34)
Showing 34 of 34 credits
BBC Play of the Month
Headmistress
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Annie
1965
Maigret
1960
Sykes
Lady Dorothy
1972Sykes
Agatha Millhampton
1972
The Onedin Line
Lady Lazenby
1971
The Pallisers
Marchioness of Auld Reekie
1974
The Human Jungle
Agnes
1963
Boy Meets Girl
Principessa di San Fernando
1967
Mystery and Imagination
Countess
1966
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Reed
1963
Armchair Theatre
Olivia Russell
1956Armchair Theatre
1956
The Caesars
Livia
1968David Copperfield
Miss Betsey Trotwood
1956
Lizzie Dripping
The Witch
1973City '68
Mrs. Ralston
1967
The Man in the Iron Mask
Duchesse de Chevreuse
1968
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Lady Wilde
1960
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Pont
1972Mystery of Edwin Drood
1960The Mill on the Floss
Mrs. Glegg
1965
The Fallen Idol
Mrs. Baines
1948
Wives and Daughters
Lady Cumnor
1971
This Was a Woman
Sylvia Russell
1948
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
Professor Louise Mellroy
1970The Adventures of Alice
Red Queen
1960
The Break
Sarah
1963
Now and Forever
Miss Fox
1956
The Clouded Yellow
Jess Fenton
1950North and South
Mrs. Thornton
1966
The World Owes Me a Living
Eve Heathley
1945
While I Live
Julia Trevelyan
1947
The Third Visitor
Steffy Millington
1951