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- On Saturday, Björn Andrésen, Swedish actor and musician best known for Death in Venice, died, Kristian Petri told Dagens Nyheter; no cause of death was revealed.
- As a 15-year-old, Andrésen broke out in Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice and was called `the most beautiful boy in the world`, a label he said `screwed up my life quite decently`.
- Andrésen's family history includes his father dying in an accident, his mother dying by suicide when he was 10, and after his son Elvin died at 9 months, he struggled with depression and alcohol abuse.
- The Most Beautiful Boy in the World documentary premiered at Sundance, won the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize, and co-director Petri called Andrésen a `brave person`.
- Beyond film, Andrésen built a music career in Japan, touring with the Sven Erics dance band, and recounted that Visconti took him to a gay nightclub at 16, which made him uncomfortable.
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The Swedish actor Björn Andrésen died on 25 October in Stockholm (Sweden) at the age of 70. He had known fame with the role of Tadzio, the beautiful teenager in "Death in Venice". A violent experience that will plunge him into depression and addiction. - Unforgettable in "Death in Venice", Björn Andrésen, "the most beautiful boy in the world", died at 70 years old (Culture, media and entertainment).
Stockholm. Bjorn Andrésen, the Swedish actor who gained worldwide fame for his role as a teenager in Death in Venice (1971), died on Saturday at age 70, confirmed to Afp yesterday the co-director of a documentary dedicated to his life.
Swedish actor Björn Andrésen, known for the film Death in Venice (1971), has died. He was 70. At fifteen, Andrésen played Tadzio in Italian director Luchino Visconti's classic film, based on a book by Thomas Mann. The production, shot in a hotel on Venice's Lido, provided some famous scenes in film history. In the film, a composer in the hotel, against the backdrop of a cholera epidemic, becomes captivated by the boy with an angelic appearance, …
Swedish 'Death in Venice' actor Bjorn Andresen dead at 70
Bjorn Andresen, a Swedish actor known for his performance in Luchino Visconti’s award-winning “Death in Venice” (1971), has died at the age of 70, an associate told AFP Monday, Oct. 27. At the age of 15, Andresen was approached by the Italian director, who was searching for an actor to play Tadzio, a beautiful adolescent who composer Gustav von Aschenbach, played by Dirk Bogarde, becomes obsessed with. Andresen passed away on Saturday from cance…
Bjorn Andresen, the Swedish actor best known for his role as Tadzio in the 1971 film “Death in Venice,” has died at the age of 70. He rose to fame at the age of 15, when Italian director Luchino Visconti called him “the most beautiful boy in the world,” a title that would stay with him throughout his life and negatively impact his career and life. Andresen endured unpleasant experiences during filming, including forced visits to gay clubs, which…
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