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

A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson

Haymaker (uncredited)

Brödernas kvinna

Dödsritten under cirkuskupolen

Driver

Thomas Graals bästa barn

Farmhand

Hans nåds testamente

Stage worker

Thomas Graals bästa film

Farm-Hand

Ingmarssönerna

Inspector

Karin Ingmarsdotter

Gränsfolken

Agaton och Fina

Hin och smålänningen

Livets konflikter

von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)

Harald Handfaste

Sailor

Mästerman

Driver

Körkarlen

Lookout

Terje Vigen

Raftsman

Sången om den eldröda blomman

Man at the inn

Vem dömer

Man in theater crowd

I lifvets vår

Tösen från Stormyrtorpet

Officer

En vildfågel

Member of the ships crew

Eld ombord

Man with Björn Bergstéinsson

Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru

Konstgjorda Svensson

Alexander den Store