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person_profile-Sonia Dresdel

Sonia Dresdel Died at age: 66

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Sonia Dresdel

Date of Birth:

May 05, 1909

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Jan 18, 1976

Biography of

Sonia Dresdel

    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.

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Sonia Dresdel

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Filmography of

Sonia Dresdel

Found 10 Movies in total

Lady Caroline Lamb

Lady Pont ( Actor )

... 1972

The Break

Sarah ( Actor )

... 1963

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Lady Wilde ( Actor )

... 1960

Now and Forever

Miss Fox ( Actor )

... 1956

The Third Visitor

Steffy Millington ( Actor )

... 1951

The Clouded Yellow

Jess Fenton ( Actor )

... 1950

The Fallen Idol

Mrs. Baines ( Actor )

... 1948

This Was a Woman

Sylvia Russell ( Actor )

... 1948

While I Live

Julia Trevelyan ( Actor )

... 1947

The World Owes Me a Living

Eve Heathley ( Actor )

... 1945