Björn Andrésen obituary

<p>Actor who starred as the angelic boy Tadzio in the 1971 film Death in Venice - but found the resulting fame a ‘nightmare’</p><p>“It was a cool summer job”. That was how the actor Björn Andrésen, who has died aged 70, described the role that made him a star and ruined his life.</p><p>In <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview22">Luchino Visconti</a>’s 1971 film of Thomas Mann’s novella Death in Venice, Andrésen was Tadzio, the angelic 14-year-old holidaying with his family at the same hotel as Gustav von Aschenbach, an ailing composer who is fleetingly revived and energised by his obsession with the boy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/28/bjorn-andresen-obituary">Continue reading...</a>