Björn Andrésen was born on January 26, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden as Björn Johan Andrésen. He is an actor, known for Mort à Venise (1971), A Swedish Love Story (1970) and Den enfaldige mördaren (1982).
I was just 16 and [Luchino Visconti] and the team took me to a gay nightclub. Almost all the crew we...Show more »
I was just 16 and [Luchino 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. Show less «
I would rather have built my life than be put on this pedestal.
I would rather have built my life than be put on this pedestal.
It's very different now, but you can see why most actors would avoid homosexual roles . . . After I ...Show more »
It's very different now, but you can see why most actors would avoid homosexual roles . . . After I was in Mort à Venise (1971) so many papers in America wrote that I was homosexual. All from one movie! I kept having to say no, no, which makes me sound desperate or prejudiced . . . so I think for me I'm better being far away from all that. Show less «
My career is one of the few that started at the absolute top and then worked its way down. That was ...Show more »
My career is one of the few that started at the absolute top and then worked its way down. That was lonely. Show less «
I didn't choose "Death in Venice". "Death in Venice" chose me.
I didn't choose "Death in Venice". "Death in Venice" chose me.