Olof Alvar Hage Ås (21 September 1892 – 4 September 1949)Svenska Filminstitutet
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theater and film actor stage manager. Ås was born in

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, 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

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's ''

The Lass from the Stormy Croft ''The Lass from the Stormy Croft'' () is a 1917 silent Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is based on the 1908 novella with the same title by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

'' (Swedish: ''Tösen från Stormyrtorpet'') (1917) and

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'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,

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, following a road accident, aged 56.

Selected filmography

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* 1892 births 1949 deaths Swedish male film actors Swedish male stage actors Swedish male silent film actors 20th-century Swedish male actors Male actors from Stockholm {{Sweden-stage-actor-stub