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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.[1]
Selected filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | A Man There Was | Lookout | Uncredited |
| 1917 | Thomas Graals bästa film | Stage worker | |
| 1917 | Alexander den Store | One city bid | Uncredited |
| 1918 | The Outlaw and His Wife | Man with Bjrön Bergstéinsson | |
| 1918 | Thomas Graals bästa barn | Driver | |
| 1919 | Sons of Ingmar | Farm-Hand | Uncredited |
| 1919 | Sången om den eldröda blomman | Timber Raft Man | Uncredited |
| 1919 | His Lordship's Last Will (Hans nåds testamente) | Farmhand | |
| 1920 | Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Karin Ingmarsdotter) | Inspector | |
| 1920 | A Lover in Pawn (Mästerman) | Sailor | |
| 1921 | The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) | Driver | |
| 1922 | Vem dömer | man at the inn | Uncredited |
| 1927 | The Devil and the Smalander | Hjortberg | |
| 1928 | A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson | Jakob | |
| 1929 | Artificial Svensson | Officer | |
| 1946 | Harald Handfaste | Uncredited, (final film role) |
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