Sonia Dresdel

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.

  • Title: Sonia Dresdel
  • Popularity: 1.24
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1909-05-05
  • Place of Birth: Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Lois Obee
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Sonia Dresdel Movies

  • 1948
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    The Fallen Idol

    The Fallen Idol

    7.136 1948 HD

    Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...

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  • 1950
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    The Clouded Yellow

    The Clouded Yellow

    6.1 1950 HD

    After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas...

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  • 1963
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    The Break

    The Break

    6.1 1963 HD

    A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.

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  • 1960
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    The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    6.4 1960 HD

    England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with...

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  • 1951
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    The Third Visitor

    The Third Visitor

    6 1951 HD

    Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a...

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  • 1947
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    While I Live

    While I Live

    6.6 1947 HD

    In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to...

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  • 1945
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    The World Owes Me a Living

    The World Owes Me a Living

    6 1945 HD

    When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from...

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  • 1972
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    Lady Caroline Lamb

    Lady Caroline Lamb

    5.8 1972 HD

    Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

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  • 1956
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    Now and Forever

    Now and Forever

    7 1956 HD

    A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...

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  • 1948
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    This Was a Woman

    This Was a Woman

    6.2 1948 HD

    The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able...

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  • 1973
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    Lizzie Dripping

    Lizzie Dripping

    5 1973 HD

    Lizzie Dripping was a British television children's programme produced by the BBC in 1973 and 1975. It was written by Helen Cresswell and set in the...

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  • 1966
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    Mystery and Imagination

    Mystery and Imagination

    5.5 1966 HD

    Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to...

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  • 1968
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    The Caesars

    The Caesars

    7.8 1968 HD

    The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and...

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  • 1960
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    Maigret

    Maigret

    6.9 1960 HD

    BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch...

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  • 1960
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    Mystery of Edwin Drood

    Mystery of Edwin Drood

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Strauss Family

    The Strauss Family

    1 1972 HD

    A seven-part mini-series produced in England about Vienna's Strauss family in the 19th-century. Members of the London Symphony Orchestra provided the...

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  • 1963
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    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    8.2 1963 HD

    The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for...

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  • 1971
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    The Onedin Line

    The Onedin Line

    6.8 1971 HD

    The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in...

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  • 1972
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    Sykes

    Sykes

    6.4 1972 HD

    Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.

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  • 1972
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    Sykes

    Sykes

    6.4 1972 HD

    Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.

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