Olof Ås
Acting
Born: 1892-09-01
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
Brother Against Brother
Life’s Conflicts
The Phantom Carriage
Driver
The Springtime of Life
Man in theater crowd
A Man There Was
Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
Thomas Graal's Best Child
Driver
Old Nick and the Smålander
Harald Handfaste
von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
Agaton and Fina
The Last Performance
Love's Crucible
Man at the inn
The Outlaw and His Wife
Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
Artificial Svensson
A Lover in Pawn
Sailor
Song of the Scarlet Flower
Raftsman
A Wild Bird
Officer
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
The Brothers' Woman
Haymaker (uncredited)
Thomas Graal's Best Film
Stage worker
Sons of Ingmar
Farm-Hand
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Inspector
Alexander the Great
His Grace’s Will
Farmhand
