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.
Filmography
Harald Handfaste
1946
as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
The Brothers' Woman
1943
as Haymaker (uncredited)
Artificial Svensson
1929
Getting Baron Olson Married, Ltd.
1928
- No poster
Old Nick and the Smålander
1927
- No poster
The Hell Ship
1923
as Member of the ships crew
Love's Crucible
1922
as Man at the inn
A Wild Bird
1921
as Officer
The Phantom Carriage
1921
as Driver
A Lover in Pawn
1920
as Sailor
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
1920
as Inspector
His Grace’s Will
1919
as Farmhand
Song of the Scarlet Flower
1919
as Raftsman
Sons of Ingmar
1919
as Farm-Hand
Thomas Graal's Best Child
1918
as Driver
The Outlaw and His Wife
1918
as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
- No poster
Alexander the Great
1917
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
1917
Thomas Graal's Best Film
1917
as Stage worker
A Man There Was
1917
as Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
Brother Against Brother
1913
- No poster
Life’s Conflicts
1913
The Springtime of Life
1912
as Man in theater crowd
The Last Performance
1912