- BFI identifier22809
- TitleThe Beggar's Opera (Original)
Credits
Directed by: Peter Brook
©: Imperadio Pictures Limited
Produced by: Laurence Olivier, Herbert Wilcox
Associate Producer: Eric Goodhead
Production Manager: J.D. Wilcox
Production Assistant: John Brabourne
Assistant Director: Frank Hollands, Jack Causey [uncredited]
2nd Assistant Director: Geoffrey Helman [uncredited], Harold Buck [uncredited]
3rd Assistant Director: John Draper [uncredited]
Continuity: Elaine Schreyeck
Casting: Patricia Smith
Screenplay by: Denis Cannan
Additional Dialogue and Lyrics: Christopher Fry
[Original Play] By: John Gay
Photographed by: Guy Green
Colour Consultant: Joan Bridge
Camera Operator: Austin Dempster, Denys Coop [uncredited], Arthur Ibbetson [uncredited], Herbert Salisbury [uncredited]
Focus Puller: Ken Gray [uncredited]
Camera Assistant: Godfrey Godar [uncredited], Mike Brandt [uncredited], Dennis Fox [uncredited], Wally Fairweather [uncredited]
Stills: James Swarbrick [uncredited]
Special Effects: Wally Veevers, George Samuels
Supervising Editor: Reginald Beck
Assembly Cutter: Basil Warren [uncredited]
1st Assistant Editor: Tony Lowen [uncredited]
2nd Assistant Editor: Ronald Freeman [uncredited], Tony Williams [uncredited], Derek Fairhead [uncredited]
Art Director: William C. Andrews
Assistant Art Director: Albert Witherick [uncredited]
Opera Sets and Costumes: Georges Wakhevitch
Set Dresser: Leonard Townsend
Draughtsman: Frank Willson [uncredited]
Scene Artist: A. Van Montagu [uncredited]
Assistant Dress Designer: Bernard Sarron [uncredited]
Wardrobe Supervisor: Maude Churchill
Make-up: Tony Sforzini
Hairdressing: Joyce Wood
Colour by: Technicolor
Music Arranged and Composed by: Arthur Bliss
Sir Arthur Bliss's Score Conducted by: Muir Mathieson
Repetiteur: William Blezard
Dance Arrangements: Frank Staff
Sound Camera Operator: James Dooley [uncredited]
Sound Assistant: Alan Blay [uncredited], Jack Davis [uncredited]
Sound Recordist: Peter Handford, Red Law
Boom Operator: Bill Cook [uncredited]
Boom Assistant: Denis Kavanagh [uncredited]
Dubbing Editor: Gerry Hambling [uncredited]
Sound System: Western Electric Recording
Produced at: Shepperton Studios