Olof Ås
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.
Acting
Movie
The Phantom Carriage
as Driver
1921
Movie
A Man There Was
as Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
1917
Movie
The Outlaw and His Wife
as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
1918
Movie
Song of the Scarlet Flower
as Raftsman
1919
Movie
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
as Inspector
1920
Movie
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
1917
Movie
Love's Crucible
as Man at the inn
1922
Movie
Sons of Ingmar
as Farm-Hand
1919
Movie
Thomas Graal's Best Film
as Stage worker
1917
Movie
The Hell Ship
as Member of the ships crew
1923
Movie
Thomas Graal's Best Child
as Driver
1918
Movie
A Lover in Pawn
as Sailor
1920
Movie
The Springtime of Life
as Man in theater crowd
1912
Movie
A Wild Bird
as Officer
1921
Movie
The Last Performance
1912
Movie
Brother Against Brother
1913
Movie
The Brothers' Woman
as Haymaker (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Artificial Svensson
1929
Movie
His Grace’s Will
as Farmhand
1919
Movie
Harald Handfaste
as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
1946
Movie
Alexander the Great
1917
Movie
Getting Baron Olson Married, Ltd.
1928
Movie
Old Nick and the Smålander
1927
Movie
Agaton and Fina
1912
