Olof Ås Explained

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.

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1917A Man There Was Lookout Uncredited
1917Thomas Graals bästa film Stage worker
1917Alexander den Store One city bid Uncredited
1918The Outlaw and His Wife Man with Bjrön Bergstéinsson
1918Thomas Graals bästa barn Driver
1919Sons of Ingmar Farm-Hand Uncredited
1919Sången om den eldröda blomman Timber Raft Man Uncredited
1919His Lordship's Last Will (Hans nåds testamente) Farmhand
1920Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Karin Ingmarsdotter) Inspector
1920A Lover in Pawn (Mästerman) Sailor
1921The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) Driver
1922Vem dömer man at the inn Uncredited
1927The Devil and the Smalander Hjortberg
1928A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson Jakob
1929Artificial Svensson Officer
1946Harald Handfaste Uncredited, (final film role)

Notes and References

  1. http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=61126 Svenska Filminstitutet