Olof Ås
Born: 1892-09-01
Died: 1949-09-04
Known For: Acting
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
1946
- Harald Handfaste as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
1943
- The Brothers' Woman as Haymaker (uncredited)
1929
1927
1924
- The Saga of Gösta Berling ... (Special Effects)
1923
- The Hell Ship as Member of the ships crew
1922
- Love's Crucible as Man at the inn
1921
- The Phantom Carriage as Driver
- A Wild Bird as Officer
1920
- Karin, Daughter of Ingmar as Inspector
- A Lover in Pawn as Sailor
1919
- Sons of Ingmar as Farm-Hand
- Song of the Scarlet Flower as Raftsman
- His Lord's Will as Farmhand
1918
- The Outlaw and His Wife as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
- Thomas Graal's Best Child as Driver
1917
- A Man There Was as Lookout
- The Girl from the Marsh Croft
- Alexander the Great
- Thomas Graal's Best Film as Stage worker
1912
- The Last Performance
- The Springtime of Life as Man in theater crowd
- Agaton och Fina