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 Phantom Carriage

Artificial Svensson

The Outlaw and His Wife

Sons of Ingmar

A Man There Was

Love's Crucible

Harald Handfaste

Thomas Graal's Best Film

All Movies (25)

• Harald Handfaste1946 · as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
• The Brothers' Woman1943 · as Haymaker (uncredited)
• Artificial Svensson1929
• Getting Baron Olson Married, Ltd.1928
• Old Nick and the Smålander1927
• The Hell Ship1923 · as Member of the ships crew
• Love's Crucible1922 · as Man at the inn
• A Wild Bird1921 · as Officer
• The Phantom Carriage1921 · as Driver
• A Lover in Pawn1920 · as Sailor
• Karin, Daughter of Ingmar1920 · as Inspector
• His Grace’s Will1919 · as Farmhand
• Song of the Scarlet Flower1919 · as Raftsman
• Sons of Ingmar1919 · as Farm-Hand
• Thomas Graal's Best Child1918 · as Driver
• The Outlaw and His Wife1918 · as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
• Alexander the Great1917
• The Girl from the Marsh Croft1917
• Thomas Graal's Best Film1917 · as Stage worker
• A Man There Was1917 · as Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
• Brother Against Brother1913
• Life’s Conflicts1913
• The Springtime of Life1912 · as Man in theater crowd
• The Last Performance1912
• Agaton and Fina1912