Name
Olof Ås
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1892-09-01
Deathday
1949-09-04 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
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
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An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that d...
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Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his darin...
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Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another...
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The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by...
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A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but w...
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Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older m...
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At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She c...
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Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström...
- 1928 Getting Baron Olson Married, Ltd.
- 1943 The Brothers' Woman as Haymaker (uncredited)
- 1912 The Last Performance
- 1918 Thomas Graal's Best Child as Driver
- 1919 His Grace’s Will as Farmhand
- 1917 Thomas Graal's Best Film as Stage worker
- 1919 Sons of Ingmar as Farm-Hand
- 1920 Karin, Daughter of Ingmar as Inspector
- 1913 Brother Against Brother
- 1912 Agaton and Fina
- 1927 Old Nick and the Smålander
- 1913 Life’s Conflicts
- 1946 Harald Handfaste as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)
- 1920 A Lover in Pawn as Sailor
- 1921 The Phantom Carriage as Driver
- 1917 A Man There Was as Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
- 1919 Song of the Scarlet Flower as Raftsman
- 1922 Love's Crucible as Man at the inn
- 1912 The Springtime of Life as Man in theater crowd
- 1917 The Girl from the Marsh Croft
- 1921 A Wild Bird as Officer
- 1923 The Hell Ship as Member of the ships crew
- 1918 The Outlaw and His Wife as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
- 1929 Artificial Svensson
- 1917 Alexander the Great
