Olof Ås

Olof Ås

1892-09-01 – 1949-09-04 (age 57)
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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.

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Known For

The Phantom Carriage
The Phantom Carriage

1921

as Driver

A Man There Was
A Man There Was

1917

as Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)

The Outlaw and His Wife
The Outlaw and His Wife

1918

as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson

The Brothers' Woman
The Brothers' Woman

1943

as Haymaker (uncredited)

Love's Crucible
Love's Crucible

1922

as Man at the inn

Sons of Ingmar
Sons of Ingmar

1919

as Farm-Hand

A Lover in Pawn
A Lover in Pawn

1920

as Sailor

Thomas Graal's Best Film
Thomas Graal's Best Film

1917

as Stage worker

Song of the Scarlet Flower
His Grace’s Will
His Grace’s Will

1919

as Farmhand

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The Hell Ship

1923

as Member of the ships crew

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Harald Handfaste
Harald Handfaste

1946

as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)