Olof Ås
Acting • Born 1892-09-01 – Died 1949-09-04
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.
Filmography
25 credits
A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson
Movie • 1928
The Brothers' Woman
Movie • 1943
Haymaker (uncredited)
The Last Performance
Movie • 1912
Thomas Graal's Best Child
Movie • 1918
Driver
His Lord's Will
Movie • 1919
Farmhand
Thomas Graal's Best Film
Movie • 1917
Stage worker
Sons of Ingmar
Movie • 1919
Farm-Hand
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Movie • 1920
Inspector
Brother Against Brother
Movie • 1913
Agaton och Fina
Movie • 1912
Hin och smålänningen
Movie • 1927
Livets konflikter
Movie • 1913
Harald Handfaste
Movie • 1946
von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
A Lover in Pawn
Movie • 1920
Sailor
The Phantom Carriage
Movie • 1921
Driver
A Man There Was
Movie • 1917
Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
Song of the Scarlet Flower
Movie • 1919
Raftsman
Love's Crucible
Movie • 1922
Man at the inn
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Movie • 1917
The Springtime of Life
Movie • 1912
Man in theater crowd
A Wild Bird
Movie • 1921
Officer
The Hell Ship
Movie • 1923
Member of the ships crew
The Outlaw and His Wife
Movie • 1918
Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
Artificial Svensson
Movie • 1929
Alexander the Great
Movie • 1917