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Olof Ås

Sep 01, 1892 - Sep 04, 1949 (57 years old) in

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

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The Phantom Carriage
Driver
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Sons of Ingmar
Farm-Hand
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A Man There Was
Lookout
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The Outlaw and His Wife
Man with Björn Bergstéinsson
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
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The Brothers' Woman
Haymaker (uncredited)
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Brother Against Brother
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Thomas Graal's Best Child
Driver
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Thomas Graal's Best Film
Stage worker
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The Hell Ship
Member of the ships crew

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