Olof Ås
ActingOlof 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
The Phantom Carriage
Driver
A Man There Was
Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
The Outlaw and His Wife
Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Love's Crucible
Man at the inn
Harald Handfaste
von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
A Lover in Pawn
Sailor
His Lord's Will
Farmhand
A Wild Bird
Officer
Filmography — Acting
The Phantom Carriage
Driver
A Man There Was
Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
The Outlaw and His Wife
Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Love's Crucible
Man at the inn
Harald Handfaste
von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
A Lover in Pawn
Sailor
His Lord's Will
Farmhand
A Wild Bird
Officer
Thomas Graal's Best Child
Driver
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Inspector
Song of the Scarlet Flower
Raftsman
The Springtime of Life
Man in theater crowd
Brother Against Brother
Hin och smålänningen
Thomas Graal's Best Film
Stage worker
Sons of Ingmar
Farm-Hand
A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson
The Brothers' Woman
Haymaker (uncredited)
Livets konflikter
The Hell Ship
Member of the ships crew
Agaton och Fina
Artificial Svensson
Alexander the Great
