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.

Known For

The Phantom Carriage

as Driver

A Man There Was

as Lookout

The Outlaw and His Wife

as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson

Song of the Scarlet Flower

as Raftsman

Karin, Daughter of Ingmar

as Inspector

Love's Crucible

as Man at the inn

The Girl from the Marsh Croft

Thomas Graal's Best Film

as Stage worker

Thomas Graal's Best Child

as Driver

Sons of Ingmar

as Farm-Hand