CBS Television Workshop The Beggar's Opera (Season 1, Episode 8)
TV Episode | Drama

CBS Television Workshop

The Beggar's Opera (Season 1, Episode 8)

TV Episode | Drama

An adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera. With its story of a condemned highwayman, it brings to life the greed, lust and corruption of low-life London.

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John Gay (libretto)

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Updated Mar 2, 1952

Release date

Mar 2, 1952 (United States)

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Wyatt Cooper Actor Actor See fewer	The Chapman Report (1962)
Jack Diamond Mr. Lockit Mr. Lockit See fewer	5 Against the House (1955)
Stephen Douglass Macheath Macheath See fewer	State Trooper (1956)
Bernard Kates Filch Filch See fewer	The Phantom (1996)
Karen Lindgren Lucy Lockit Lucy Lockit See fewer	One Woman's Story (1952)
Doretta Morrow Polly Peachum Polly Peachum See fewer	Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950)
Gregory Morton Beggar Beggar See fewer	Flight That Disappeared (1961)
Odette Myrtil Mrs. Peachum Mrs. Peachum See fewer	Dodsworth (1936)
Joe Silver Mr. Peachum Mr. Peachum See fewer	Creepshow 2 (1987)