Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)
Drama · History
Overview
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
Cast
- Timothy Spall as Albert Pierrepoint
- Juliet Stevenson as Annie Pierrepoint
- Mary Stockley as Ruth Ellis
- Lizzie Hopley as Dorothea Waddingham
- Joyia Fitch as Elizabeth Volkenrath
- Sheyla Shehovich as Irma Grese
- Simon Armstrong as Minister
- Ann Bell as Violet Van Der Elst
- Tobias Menzies as Lieutenant Llewelyn
- Eddie Marsan as James 'Tish' Corbitt