Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

December. 07,2005      
Rating:
7.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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
Eddie Marsan as  James 'Tish' Corbitt
Simon Armstrong as  Minister
Ann Bell as  Violet Van Der Elst
Tobias Menzies as  Lieutenant Llewelyn
Nicholas Blane as  Governor of Strangeways
Clive Brunt as  Warder at Strangeways
Cavan Clerkin as  George Cooper
James Corden as  Kirky

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