Sonia Dresdel
Birthday
1909/05/05
Day of death
1976/01/18 (66 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also know as
Lois Obee
Biography
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1948) The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
(1950) The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
(1963) The Break
as Sarah
(1960) The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
(1951) The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
(1947) While I Live
as Julia Trevelyan
(1945) The World Owes Me a Living
as Eve Heathley
(1972) Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
(1956) Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
(1948) This Was a Woman
as Sylvia Russell
(1973) Lizzie Dripping
as The Witch
(1966) Mystery and Imagination
as ---
(1968) The Caesars
as Livia
(1960) Maigret
as ---
(1960) Mystery of Edwin Drood
as ---
(1972) The Strauss Family
as ---
(1963) The Human Jungle
as Agnes
(1971) The Onedin Line
as Lady Lazenby
(1972) Sykes
as Lady Dorothy
(1972) Sykes
as Agatha Millhampton