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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1892-09-01 (132 years old)

Place of Birth

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

Acting

1946

Harald Handfaste as von Dotzen's daughter chamber maid (uncredited)

1943

The Brothers' Woman as Haymaker (uncredited)

1929

1928

1927

1923

The Hell Ship as Member of the ships crew

1922

Love's Crucible as Man at the inn

1921

A Wild Bird as Officer

1920

1919

His Lord's Will as Farmhand
Sons of Ingmar as Farm-Hand

1918

The Outlaw and His Wife as Man with Björn Bergstéinsson

1917

1913

1912

Production

1946

Harald Handfaste as Production Manager

1943

The Brothers' Woman as Unit Manager

Crew

1924

The Saga of Gösta Berling as Special Effects