Björn Andrésen obituary
Actor who starred as the angelic boy Tadzio in the 1971 film Death in Venice - but found the resulting fame a ‘nightmare’“It was a cool summer job”. That was...
By Ryan Gilbey · The Guardian Culture
Actor who starred as the angelic boy Tadzio in the 1971 film Death in Venice - but found the resulting fame a ‘nightmare’ “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. In Luchino Visconti ’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. Continue reading...