

07/12/2005
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.

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

Nicholas Blane
as Governor of Strangeways

Clive Brunt
as Warder at Strangeways

Cavan Clerkin
as George Cooper

James Corden
as Kirky

Claire Keelan
as Jessie Kelly

Christopher Fulford
as Sykes

Bernard Kay
as Uncle Tom

Maggie Ollerenshaw
as Mary Pierrepoint

Tim Woodward
as Governor of Holloway

Clive Francis
as Field Marshall Montgomery

Neil Fitzmaurice
as Cliff the Scouser

Keiran Flynn
as Neville

Frances Shergold
as Alice

Rodney Litchfield
as Sellers

Ben McKay
as Timothy Evans

Jack Lord
as Jack Ellis

Mary Jo Randle
as Mrs Corbett

Kate Rutter
as Eileen

Robin Soans
as Governor Paton-Walsh

Marie Critchley
as Woman in Pub

Paul Ready
as Anthony David Farrow
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