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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1892-09-01
- Died
- 1949-09-04
Known for
- The Phantom Carriage (1921) — Driver
- A Man There Was (1917) — Utkiken på den engelska korvetten (uncredited)
- The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) — Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
- The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924) — Special Effects
- Song of the Scarlet Flower (1919) — Raftsman
- The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1917)
- Karin, Daughter of Ingmar (1920) — Inspector
- Love's Crucible (1922) — Man at the inn
- Sons of Ingmar (1919) — Farm-Hand
- Thomas Graal's Best Film (1917) — Stage worker
- The Hell Ship (1923) — Member of the ships crew
- Thomas Graal's Best Child (1918) — Driver
- A Lover in Pawn (1920) — Sailor
- The Springtime of Life (1912) — Man in theater crowd
- A Wild Bird (1921) — Officer
- The Last Performance (1912)