The full cast of The Beggar's Opera

Here you will find an overview of the cast of the movie The Beggar's Opera from the year 1953, including all the actors, actresses and the director. When you click on the name of an actor, actress or director from the movie The Beggar's Opera-cast you can watch more movies and/or series by him or her. Click here for more infomation about the movie.

We have made an overview that includes: actors, directors, the production team, the camera team, writers and other crew members.

Directors

Peter Brook

Director

Writers

John Gay

Lyricist

Christopher Fry

Writer

Denis Cannan

Writer

Actors & actresses

Laurence Olivier

MacHeath

Hugh Griffith

The Beggar

George Rose

1st Turnkey

Stuart Burge

1st Prisoner

Cyril Conway

2nd Prisoner

Gerald Lawson

3rd Prisoner

Dorothy Tutin

Polly Peachum

George Devine

Peachum

Mary Clare

Mrs. Peachum

Edward Pryor

Filch

Athene Seyler

Mrs. Trapes

Stanley Holloway

Mr. Lockit

Daphne Anderson

Lucy Lockit

Eric Pohlmann

Inn Keeper

Yvonne Furneaux

Jenny Diver

Kenneth Williams

Jack the Pot Boy

Sandra Dorne

Sukey Tawdry

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

Herbert C. Walton

3rd Turnkey

Eugene Leahy

4th Turnkey

Edgar Norfolk

5th Turnkey

Oliver Hunter

2nd Chairman

Madge Brindley

Gin Seller

Felix Felton

Governor

Denis Cannan

John, the Footman

Margot Grahame

The Actress

Tamba Allen

Negro Page

Terence Greenidge

Chaplain

Billy Wells

Hangman

Adele Leigh

Singing voice

Jennifer Vyvyan

Singing voice

Edith Coats

Singing voice

Joan Cross

Singing voice

John Cameron

Singer

Bruce Boyce

Singing voice

Alanna Boyce

Urchin

Artistic design

Georges Wakhévitch

Production Design

William C. Andrews

Production Design

Camera

Wally Fairweather

Assistant Camera

Guy Green

Director of Photography

Costume & makeup

Georges Wakhévitch

Costume Design

Movie Editing

Reginald Beck

Editor

Production

Eric Goodhead

Associate Producer

Laurence Olivier

Producer

Herbert Wilcox

Producer

Sound

Arthur Bliss

Original Music Composer

Johann Christoph Pepusch

Songs