Olof Ås
Also Known As: Olof Åhs, Olle Ås
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 01, 1892
Deathday: September 04, 1949
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Gender: Male
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A.-B. gifta bort baron Olson
Overview: Baron Baltzar Casimir Von Gahl - after an earlier adventure commonly known as "Baron Olson" - owns an old farm, but has huge debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-12-26
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The Brothers' Woman
Overview: City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-22
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The Last Performance
Overview: A young lieutenant falls in love with a circus rider. He leave the military and take a job at the circus. He quickly becomes the crowds favorite. His interest in another woman drives the rejected circus rider to revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-08-11
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Thomas Graal's Best Child
Overview: Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marriage begins right at the wedding (which contains some hilarious incidents) when Frau Bessie announces the first Graal child must be a girl, creating a terrible conflict with her husband who is hoping for a boy. It takes a scandal to finally end the war between man and wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1918-10-21
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His Lord's Will
Overview: A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl Mantzius), who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda (Greta Almroth). But love and fate also plays their cards. One of the most surprising films of Sjöström, close to Stroheim and some of the silent comedies of Lubitsch. Belonging to the golden age of Swedish film, this comedy offers one of the earliest explorations of the relationship between masters and servants on the screen, later developed by French masters like Renoir and Guitry. After acting in the diptych of Thomas Graal, Sjöström shows that he also dominates the “light genre” as director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-11-03
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Thomas Graal's Best Film
Overview: Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-08-13
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Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Overview: Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. The critical reception was however unenthusiastic and Sjöström decided to not direct any more parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-02-02
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Sons of Ingmar
Overview: Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Brother Against Brother
Overview: Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-11-21
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Agaton och Fina
Overview: Short film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Hin och smålänningen
Overview: Gunnar works at a rail road in the woods and blasts a large boulder. Out of the ashes comes Satan himself - with cloven hoofs and a big mean grin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1927-11-14
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Livets konflikter
Overview: The old friends Otto Berner and Charles Von Barton stands on separate sides in a political conflict.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-11-10
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Harald Handfaste
Overview: Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
Genres: Action Romance Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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A Lover in Pawn
Overview: About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-10-11
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The Phantom Carriage
Overview: An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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A Man There Was
Overview: Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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Song of the Scarlet Flower
Overview: The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-04-14
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Love's Crucible
Overview: At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forget her flaming eyes, the severity of her spirit, her abrupt and alarmed expressions, like an animal under threat.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Springtime of Life
Overview: A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international opera singer. Past and present meet when she performs in her original home town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-12-16
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Overview: A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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A Wild Bird
Overview: A woman searches for the child she gave up at birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-10-18
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The Hell Ship
Overview: A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick, one of the sailors, is one of the most rebellious and draws up plans to exact vengeance. The opportunity arises, but an incident that may sink the ship changes the focus of attention. The lighting for the film and the composition of the scenes are regarded as the highlights of the movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-02-05
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The Outlaw and His Wife
Overview: A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Artificial Svensson
Overview: When silly inventor Svensson gets mistaken for Swedish/American aviator Smith, he is accidentally enlisted in the military and drawn into unexpected romantic affairs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1929-10-14
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Alexander the Great
Overview: In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with the extravagant restaurateurs of nowadays and their meagre menus. The manager is named after Alexander the Great and in his restaurant the town bourgeoisie meet and discuss various issues, especially matters of the heart. Morals are part of the conversations and prove to be complicated issues even for strict and serious Nordics. 28 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-11-12
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