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

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, February 20, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.