
Feature film — 2005
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)
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.
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A high-signal pick with 85 votes.
UK Film Council / Granada Productions
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Director: Adrian Shergold
On screen
Cast & crew

Timothy Spall
Albert Pierrepoint

Juliet Stevenson
Annie Pierrepoint

Mary Stockley
Ruth Ellis

Lizzie Hopley
Dorothea Waddingham

Joyia Fitch
Elizabeth Volkenrath

Sheyla Shehovich
Irma Grese

Simon Armstrong
Minister
Ann Bell
Violet Van Der Elst

Tobias Menzies
Lieutenant Llewelyn

Eddie Marsan
James 'Tish' Corbitt

Nicholas Blane
Governor of Strangeways

Clive Brunt
Warder at Strangeways
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