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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.
As actor
Harald Handfaste
The Brothers' Woman
Artificial Svensson
Getting Baron Olson Married, Ltd.
Old Nick and the Smålander
The Hell Ship
Love's Crucible
The Phantom Carriage
A Wild Bird
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
A Lover in Pawn
His Grace’s Will
Sons of Ingmar
Song of the Scarlet Flower
Thomas Graal's Best Child
The Outlaw and His Wife
Thomas Graal's Best Film
A Man There Was
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Alexander the Great
Brother Against Brother
Life’s Conflicts
The Last Performance
Agaton and Fina
The Springtime of Life