Olof Alvar Hage Ås (21 September 1892 – 4 September 1949)Svenska Filminstitutet 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.
Selected filmography Year Title Role Notes1917 A Man There Was Lookout Uncredited1917 Thomas Graals bästa film Stage worker 1917 Alexander den Store One city bid Uncredited1918 The Outlaw and His Wife Man with Bjrön Bergstéinsson 1918 Thomas Graals bästa barn Driver 1919 Sons of Ingmar Farm-Hand Uncredited1919 Sången om den eldröda blomman Timber Raft Man Uncredited1919 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 Uncredited1927 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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