Björn Andrésen, the Swedish actor who rose to fame as a teen in 1971’s Death in Venice and later appeared in the iconic 2019 horror film Midsommar, has died.

Kristian Petri, co-director of The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (a 2021 documentary about Andrésen), confirmed via the Swedish outlet SVT that Andrésen died on Saturday. No cause of death was revealed.

He was 70.

Andrésen gained fame at 15, starring as Tadzio in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film Death in Venice. The movie, an adaptation of Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella, depicts an older man, played by Dirk Bogarde, becoming obsessed with Tadzio.

At the film’s premiere, Visconti declared Andrésen “the most beautiful boy in the world,” a label that would stay with him for life.

After the film was released, Visconti never spoke to Andrés

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