Cast & crew
The Beggar's Opera (1953)
Directed by Peter Brook Written by Denis Cannan, Christopher Fry
Cast
| Laurence Olivier | MacHeath |
| Hugh Griffith | The Beggar |
| Stuart Burge | 1st Prisoner |
| Cyril Conway | 2nd Prisoner |
| Gerald Lawson | 3rd Prisoner |
| George Rose | 1st Turnkey |
| Edward Pryor | Filch |
| Dorothy Tutin | Polly Peachum |
| George Devine | Peachum |
| Mary Clare | Mrs. Peachum |
| Athene Seyler | Mrs. Trapes |
| Daphne Anderson | Lucy Lockit |
| Stanley Holloway | Mr. Lockit |
| Eric Pohlmann | Inn Keeper |
| Yvonne Furneaux | Jenny Diver |
| Max Brent | A Drunkard |
| Mercy Haystead | Dolly Trull |
| Patricia Raine | Mrs. Slammekin |
| Jocelyn James | Molly Brazen |
| Isabel George | Mrs. Vixen |
| Laurence Naismith | Matt of the Mint |
| Sandra Dorne | Sukey Tawdry |
| Kenneth Williams | Jack the Pot Boy |
| 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 Coates | Singing voice |
| Joan Cross | Singing voice |
| John Cameron | Singer |
| Bruce Boyce | Singing voice |
| Alanna Boyce | Urchin |
| John Baker | 2nd Chairman |
Crew
| Peter Brook | Director |
| Guy Green | Director of Photography |
| Eric Goodhead | Associate Producer |
| Wally Fairweather | Assistant Camera |
| Laurence Olivier | Producer |
| Denis Cannan | Writer |
| Johann Christoph Pepusch | Songs |
| Christopher Fry | Writer |
| Arthur Bliss | Original Music Composer |
| Herbert Wilcox | Producer |
| Georges Wakhévitch | Production Design |
| William C. Andrews | Production Design |
| Georges Wakhévitch | Costume Design |
| Reginald Beck | Editor |
| John Gay | Theatre Play |