- BFI identifier22809
- TitleThe Beggar's Opera (Original)
Cast
Hugh Griffith (The Beggar)
George Rose (1st turnkey)
Stuart Burge (1st prisoner)
Denis Cannan (The Footman)
Cyril Conway (2nd prisoner)
Gerald Lawson (3rd prisoner)
Eileen Harvey (young female traveller)
Dorothy Tutin (Polly Peachum)
Adele Leigh (Polly Peachum (singing voice))
George Devine (Peachum)
Bruce Boyle (Peachum (singing voice))
Mary Clare (Mrs. Peachum)
Edith Coates (Mrs. Peachum (singing voice))
Edward Pryor (Filch)
Athene Seyler (Mrs. Trapes)
Joan Cross (Mrs. Trapes (singing voice))
Stanley Holloway (Lockit)
Daphne Anderson (Lucy Lockit)
Jennifer Vyvyan (Lucy Lockit (singing voice))
Eric Pohlmann (innkeeper)
Edith Coates (Mrs. Coaxer)
Yvonne Furneaux (Jenny Diver)
Kenneth Williams (Jack the pot boy)
Sandra Dorne (Sukey Tawdrey)
Laurence Naismith (Matt of the Mint)
Max Brent (a drunkard)
Mercy Haystead (Dolly Trull)
Patricia Raine (Mrs. Slammekin)
Jocelyn James (Molly Brazen)
Isabel George (Mrs. Vixen)
Helen Christie (Betty Doxey)
John Kidd (2nd turnkey)
H.C. Walton (3rd turnkey)
Eugene Leahy (4th turnkey)
Edgar Norfolk (5th turnkey)
Oliver Hunter (1st chairman)
John Baker (2nd chairman)
Madge Brindley (gin seller)
Felix Felton (governor)
Denis Cannan (John the footman)
Margot Grahame (the actress)
Tamba Alleney (negro page)
Terence Greenidge (chaplain)
Billy Wells (hangman)
Laurence Olivier (Captain MacHeath)
John Cameron (singing voice)
Jennifer Vyvyan (Singing Voice)
Bruce Boyce (Singing Voice)
Edith Coates (Singing Voice)
Adele Leigh (Singing Voice)
Alanna Boyce (urchin)