Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
07/12/2005
2h

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
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


Tim Woodward
Governor of Holloway


Clive Francis
Field Marshall Montgomery


Neil Fitzmaurice
Cliff the Scouser


Keiran Flynn
Neville
Frances Shergold
Alice


Rodney Litchfield
Sellers


Ben McKay
Timothy Evans
Jack Lord
Jack Ellis


Mary Jo Randle
Mrs Corbett


Kate Rutter
Eileen


Robin Soans
Governor Paton-Walsh


Marie Critchley
Woman in Pub


Paul Ready
Anthony David Farrow
David Davies
Nazi Prisoner
Alex Helm
German Prisoner (uncredited)
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