Olof Ås

Birthday: 1892-09-01
Deathday: 1949-09-04
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Gender: Male
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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.

Credits

Year Title Character
1946-12-26 Harald Handfaste von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
1943-11-22 The Brothers' Woman Haymaker (uncredited)
1929-10-14 Artificial Svensson
1928-12-26 A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson
1927-11-14 Hin och smålänningen
1923-02-05 The Hell Ship Member of the ships crew
1922-01-01 Love's Crucible Man at the inn
1921-10-18 A Wild Bird Officer
1921-01-01 The Phantom Carriage Driver
1920-10-11 A Lover in Pawn Sailor
1920-02-02 Karin, Daughter of Ingmar Inspector
1919-11-03 His Lord's Will Farmhand
1919-04-14 Song of the Scarlet Flower Raftsman
1919-01-01 Sons of Ingmar Farm-Hand
1918-10-21 Thomas Graal's Best Child Driver
1918-01-01 The Outlaw and His Wife Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
1917-11-12 Alexander the Great
1917-09-09 The Girl from the Marsh Croft
1917-08-13 Thomas Graal's Best Film Stage worker
1917-01-29 A Man There Was Lookout
1913-11-21 Brother Against Brother
1913-11-10 Livets konflikter
1912-12-16 The Springtime of Life Man in theater crowd
1912-08-11 The Last Performance
1912-01-01 Agaton och Fina