Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1892-09-01
Day of Death
1949-09-04
Place of Birth
Unknown
Olof Ås
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.
Filmography (25)
Harald Handfaste
1946
The Brothers' Woman
1943
Artificial Svensson
1929
Getting Baron Olson Married, Ltd.
1928Old Nick and the Smålander
1927The Hell Ship
1923
Love's Crucible
1922
A Wild Bird
1921
The Phantom Carriage
1921
A Lover in Pawn
1920
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
1920
His Grace’s Will
1919
Song of the Scarlet Flower
1919