Personal Info
Lois Obee
Sonia Dresdel
Acting
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 that of "Mrs. Baines" in the 1948 film version of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, which starred Ral…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Lady Caroline Lamb
as Lady Pont
Marie Stopes: Sexual Revolutionary
as Professor Louise Mellroy
The Break
as Sarah
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
as Lady Wilde
The Adventures of Alice
as Red Queen
Now and Forever
as Miss Fox
The Third Visitor
as Steffy Millington
The Clouded Yellow
as Jess Fenton
The Fallen Idol
as Mrs. Baines
This Was a Woman
as Sylvia Russell
TV Shows
The Pallisers
as Marchioness of Auld Reekie · 4 ep.
Lizzie Dripping
as The Witch · 9 ep.
Sykes
as Agatha Millhampton · 1 ep.
The Onedin Line
as Lady Lazenby · 1 ep.
The Caesars
as Livia · 6 ep.
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Duchesse de Chevreuse · 1 ep.
Mystery and Imagination
as Countess · 1 ep.
BBC Play of the Month
as Headmistress · 1 ep.
The Mill on the Floss
as Mrs. Glegg · 4 ep.
The Human Jungle
as Agnes · 1 ep.