Olof Ås
Actor
- Born
- September 1, 1892
- Died
- September 4, 1949 (age 57)
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.
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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
January 1, 1921
A Man There Was
January 29, 1917
The Outlaw and His Wife
January 1, 1918
Song of the Scarlet Flower
April 14, 1919
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
September 9, 1917
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
February 2, 1920
Love's Crucible
January 1, 1922
Sons of Ingmar
January 1, 1919
The Hell Ship
February 5, 1923
Thomas Graal's Best Child
October 21, 1918
A Lover in Pawn
October 11, 1920
The Springtime of Life
December 16, 1912
Acting25
- 1946Harald Handfaste as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
- 1943The Brothers' Woman as Haymaker (uncredited)
- 1929Artificial Svensson
- 1928Getting Baron Olson Married, Ltd.
- 1927Old Nick and the Smålander
- 1923The Hell Ship as Member of the ships crew
- 1922Love's Crucible as Man at the inn
- 1921A Wild Bird as Officer
- 1921The Phantom Carriage as Driver
- 1920A Lover in Pawn as Sailor