Björn Andrésen, the Swedish actor and musician best known for his breakout role as a youngster in 1971’s Death in Venice, has died. He was 70. Andrésen broke out as a 15-year-old actor in Italian ...

At 15, he played the muse to an ailing composer in Luchino Visconti’s film “Death in Venice.” He later said he’d felt sexualized by the director. By Richard Sandomir Bjorn Andresen, a Swedish actor ...

Björn Andrésen has died at the age of 70. The Swedish actor and musician passed away around October 26, 2025. This was announced by documentary filmmakers Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri to the ...

Dave Cunningham is not as impressed by Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice as his take on the Bard’s Midsummer. Opera North’s Festival of Britten concludes, appropriately, with Benjamin Britten’s last ...

Björn Andrésen, the actor and musician who appeared in the 1971 movie Death in Venice as a teenager, has died He was 70. His death on Saturday was confirmed in Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter by Kristian ...

He was the subject of the 2021 documentary 'The Most Beautiful Boy in the World,' a quote about him from Luchino Visconti, his Italian director on the film. By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, ...

I suspect that this is more to do with the work itself than Yoshi Oida‘s sensitive and imaginative production, originally staged at Aldeburgh in 2007 and now revived by Rob Kearley. In Tom Schenk‘s ...