Olof Ås

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.^[2]

Selected filmography

• The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) (1921)
• A Lover in Pawn (Mästerman) (1920)
• Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Karin Ingmarsdotter) (1920)
• His Lordship's Last Will (Hans nåds testamente) (1919)

References

External links

• Olof Ås at the Internet Movie Database