

Björn Johan Andrésen (26 January 1955 – 25 October 2025) was a Swedish actor and musician. He was best known for playing the fourteen-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice. Andrésen had only appeared in one film, En kärlekshistoria (1970) at the time he was cast in Death in Venice, which gained him international recognition. While the film performed relatively poorly at the box office, Andrésen was noted for his performance as Tadzio, the beautiful young Polish boy with whom the film's older protagonist Gustav von Aschenbach becomes obsessed. Film historian Lawrence J. Quirk commented in his study The Great Romantic Films (1974) that some shots of Andrésen "could be extracted from the frame and hung on the walls of the…
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Wallander
2005 • TV
Andreas Manrell

Midsommar
2019 • Movie
Dan

Springfloden
2016 • TV
Benseman

Death in Venice
1971 • Movie
Tadzio

A Swedish Love Story
1970 • Movie
Pär's Buddy

Agatha Christie's Hjerson
2021 • TV
Oscar

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
2021 • Movie
Self

Visconti's Venice
1970 • Movie
Self

Shelley
2016 • Movie
Leo

Two Sisters
2021 • TV
AA-ledare
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