Sonia Dresdel

Sonia Dresdel

Born: May 5, 1909
Died: January 18, 1976
in Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
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.

Movies for Sonia Dresdel...

Title: Lizzie Dripping
Character: The Witch
Released: March 13, 1973
Type: TV
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 country village of Little Hemlock, where a young girl, Penelope, with a vivid imagination encounters a local witch whom only she can see and hear. This singular ability is further complicated by the fact that Penelope has established a reputation for being an imaginative liar, making it even more difficult for her to convince others that her witch is real.
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Lady Caroline Lamb
Title: Lady Caroline Lamb
Character: Lady Pont
Released: November 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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Title: The Strauss Family
Released: November 7, 1972
Type: TV
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 music.
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Title: The Onedin Line
Character: Lady Lazenby
Released: October 15, 1971
Type: TV
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 Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
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Title: The Caesars
Character: Livia
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: TV
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 produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.
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Title: Mystery and Imagination
Released: January 29, 1966
Type: TV
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
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The Break
Title: The Break
Character: Sarah
Released: July 7, 1963
Type: Movie
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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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Agnes
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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Title: Maigret
Released: October 31, 1960
Type: TV
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
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Title: Mystery of Edwin Drood
Released: September 28, 1960
Type: TV
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Title: The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Character: Lady Wilde
Released: May 28, 1960
Type: Movie
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
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Now and Forever
Title: Now and Forever
Character: Miss Fox
Released: September 10, 1956
Type: Movie
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 then decides to elope.
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The Third Visitor
Title: The Third Visitor
Character: Steffy Millington
Released: January 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corpse is found, and later identified as his by one of the visitors.
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The Clouded Yellow
Title: The Clouded Yellow
Character: Jess Fenton
Released: November 21, 1950
Type: Movie
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
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The Fallen Idol
Title: The Fallen Idol
Character: Mrs. Baines
Released: September 30, 1948
Type: Movie
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 when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
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This Was a Woman
Title: This Was a Woman
Character: Sylvia Russell
Released: January 27, 1948
Type: Movie
The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them. She subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence, finds in her husband's executive friend the man she desires, and then poisons her husband in their quiet English manor.
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While I Live
Title: While I Live
Character: Julia Trevelyan
Released: October 7, 1947
Type: Movie
In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. 25 years on, Olwen has gained posthumous fame as a result of her tragic death and her haunting uncompleted composition 'The Dream of Olwen'. Her reclusive sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), who has never come to terms with Olwen's death, becomes convinced that Olwen has returned when she meets an amnesiac woman who looks like her.
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The World Owes Me a Living
Title: The World Owes Me a Living
Character: Eve Heathley
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
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 their life together.