Björn Andrésen, the actor and musician who appeared in the 1971 movie Death in Venice as a teenager, has died aged 70.

His death on Saturday was confirmed in Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter by Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindström, who co-directed the 2021 doc about Andrésen, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World . No cause of death was given.

Andrésen is known for his role in Death in Venice , Italian director Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of the 1912 novella of the same name by German author Thomas Mann.

He played a striking-looking teenager, who becomes the object of desire of composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarte).

The film led to the moniker ‘the most beautiful boy in the world,’ a phrased coined by Visconti to the press. This would haunt Andrésen for the rest of his career

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