About
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.
Known for
BBC Play of the MonthSeries • 1965
Thirty-Minute TheatreSeries • 1965
SykesSeries • 1972
MaigretSeries • 1960
The Onedin LineSeries • 1971
Mystery and ImaginationSeries • 1966
The PallisersSeries • 1974
The Human JungleSeries • 1963
The Trials of Oscar WildeMovie • 1960
The Fallen IdolMovie • 1948
The Clouded YellowMovie • 1950