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