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My career is one of the few that started at the absolute top and then worked its way down. That was lonely.

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I was just sixteen and Visconti and the team took me to a gay nightclub. Almost all the crew were gay. The waiters at the club made me feel very uncomfortable. They looked at me uncompromisingly as if I was a nice meaty dish. I knew I couldn't react. It would have been social suicide. But it was the first of many such encounters.

Björn Andrésen

Björn Andrésen

Björn Andrésen

Born: January 26, 1955

Died: October 25, 2025 (aged 70)

Bio: Björn Johan Andrésen 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.

Known for:

Death in Venice (1971)
A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Shelley (2016)
Pelicanman (2004)
Gentlemen (2014)

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