Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 01, 1892
Died
Sep 04, 1949
Credits
26 titles
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
Filmography
Harald Handfaste
von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
The Brothers' Woman
Haymaker (uncredited)
Artificial Svensson
Getting Baron Olson Married, Ltd.
Old Nick and the Smålander
The Saga of Gösta Berling
Special Effects
The Hell Ship
Member of the ships crew
Love's Crucible
Man at the inn
A Wild Bird
Officer
The Phantom Carriage
Driver
A Lover in Pawn
Sailor
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Inspector
His Grace’s Will
Farmhand
Song of the Scarlet Flower
Raftsman
Sons of Ingmar
Farm-Hand
Thomas Graal's Best Child
Driver
The Outlaw and His Wife
Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
Alexander the Great
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Thomas Graal's Best Film
Stage worker
A Man There Was
Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
Brother Against Brother
Life’s Conflicts
The Springtime of Life
Man in theater crowd
The Last Performance
Agaton and Fina