Olof Ås
Known for Acting
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
The Phantom Carriage
1921
as Driver
The Outlaw and His Wife
1918
as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
A Man There Was
1917
as Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
Brother Against Brother
1913
Harald Handfaste
1946
as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
1917
A Wild Bird
1921
as Officer
Love's Crucible
1922
as Man at the inn
The Brothers' Woman
1943
as Haymaker (uncredited)
His Lord's Will
1919
as Farmhand
Thomas Graal's Best Child
1918
as Driver
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
1920
as Inspector
Sons of Ingmar
1919
as Farm-Hand
Thomas Graal's Best Film
1917
as Stage worker
Livets konflikter
1913
Song of the Scarlet Flower
1919
as Raftsman
A Lover in Pawn
1920
as Sailor
The Hell Ship
1923
as Member of the ships crew
A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson
1928
The Springtime of Life
1912
as Man in theater crowd