Björn Andrésen, Swedish actor who starred in Death in Venice, dies aged 70

Björn Andrésen in his breakout role in the 1971 film Death in Venice. The Swedish actor has died aged 70. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy

Björn Andrésen, the Swedish actor best known for his breakout role in the 1971 film Death in Venice, has died aged 70.

At 15, Andrésen was cast in Italian director Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice, based on Thomas Mann’s novella, in which he played Tadzio, a beautiful boy with whom an older man, played by Dirk Bogarde, becomes obsessed.