Olof Ås

Biography

Olof Alvar Hage Ås (21 September 1892 – 4 September 1949)[1] was a Swedish theater and film actor stage manager.

Ås was born in Stockholm, and begin his career on the stage. He then began a career in the 1910s as a stage manager. Some of his work as a stage manager includes films such as Victor Sjöström's The Lass from the Stormy Croft (Swedish: Tösen från Stormyrtorpet) (1917) and Mauritz Stiller's Gösta Berlings saga (1922), for which he also worked on special effects.

Ås made his film debut in the 1912 Paul Garbagni-directed I lifvets vår and would appear in nearly 30 films (most of them directed by either Stiller or Sjöström) until his death in Tureberg, Sollentuna Municipality, following a road accident, aged 56.

Known For

The Last Performance
The Last Performance
Agaton och Fina
Agaton och Fina

Filmography

1946 Harald Handfaste
as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
1943 The Brothers' Woman
as Haymaker (uncredited)
1929 Artificial Svensson
as
1928 A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson
as
1927 Hin och smålänningen
as
1923 The Hell Ship
as Member of the ships crew
1922 Love's Crucible
as Man at the inn
1921 A Wild Bird
as Officer
1921 The Phantom Carriage
as Driver
1920 A Lover in Pawn
as Sailor
1920 Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
as Inspector
1919 His Lord's Will
as Farmhand
1919 Song of the Scarlet Flower
as Raftsman
1919 Sons of Ingmar
as Farm-Hand
1918 Thomas Graal's Best Child
as Driver
1918 The Outlaw and His Wife
as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
1917 Alexander the Great
as
1917 The Girl from the Marsh Croft
as
1917 Thomas Graal's Best Film
as Stage worker
1917 A Man There Was
as Lookout