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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.436 |
Birthday | 1909-05-05 |
Place of Birth | Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Lois Obee, |
![The Fallen Idol](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sCcjmsYVgh0urTbLqQgEeskkmPt.jpg)
1948
![The Fallen Idol](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sCcjmsYVgh0urTbLqQgEeskkmPt.jpg)
The Fallen Idol
7.2/163
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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![The Clouded Yellow](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/64jzVWF9RRFSG3l6Z19kYJVNA6Q.jpg)
1950
![The Clouded Yellow](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/64jzVWF9RRFSG3l6Z19kYJVNA6Q.jpg)
The Clouded Yellow
6.1/18
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![The Break](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/boMlKLvVhvPcss22RrsEARAscaF.jpg)
1963
![The Break](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/boMlKLvVhvPcss22RrsEARAscaF.jpg)
The Break
6.1/6
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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![The Trials of Oscar Wilde](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/v5Kr4MvmqbBwS7a1CXFAsISmQCr.jpg)
1960
![The Trials of Oscar Wilde](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/v5Kr4MvmqbBwS7a1CXFAsISmQCr.jpg)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
6.4/24
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![While I Live](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/z7Uc9bh0EIdizPLhq63vnBGZObS.jpg)
1947
![While I Live](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/z7Uc9bh0EIdizPLhq63vnBGZObS.jpg)
While I Live
6.6/5
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![The Third Visitor](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/62Vz9NWp3GnSC6pzOcpqxWJep1F.jpg)
1951
![The Third Visitor](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/62Vz9NWp3GnSC6pzOcpqxWJep1F.jpg)
The Third Visitor
6/6
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![The World Owes Me a Living](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fdODniOA79UuNF6B80appAZV04n.jpg)
1945
![The World Owes Me a Living](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fdODniOA79UuNF6B80appAZV04n.jpg)
The World Owes Me a Living
6/1
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![Lady Caroline Lamb](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wUTsWibdavJPk8OWi2qzxGx0JbX.jpg)
1972
![Lady Caroline Lamb](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wUTsWibdavJPk8OWi2qzxGx0JbX.jpg)
Lady Caroline Lamb
5.8/13
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![Now and Forever](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/pG0JyZFckFqZboQi2Rzfvmx7xl4.jpg)
1956
![Now and Forever](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/pG0JyZFckFqZboQi2Rzfvmx7xl4.jpg)
Now and Forever
7/3
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![This Was a Woman](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/rAb66AfkI4eUhesFBtkT5VkgeEy.jpg)
1948
![This Was a Woman](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/rAb66AfkI4eUhesFBtkT5VkgeEy.jpg)
This Was a Woman
6.2/6
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