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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)

1940's England. When the world needed a hero, he gave them what they wanted. But history can be cruel.

  • Dec 7, 2005
  • 1h 38m
TMDB user score 7.1/10 85 votes on TMDB
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Story

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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Cast

  • 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
  • Cavan Clerkin George Cooper
  • James Corden Kirky
  • Claire Keelan Jessie Kelly
  • Christopher Fulford Sykes
  • Bernard Kay Uncle Tom
  • Maggie Ollerenshaw Mary Pierrepoint

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