Olof Ås
- Acting
- September 1, 1892
- September 4, 1949
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), Production Manager
- The Brothers' Woman · Haymaker (uncredited), Unit Manager
- 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