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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.
Directed by
Adrian Shergold
Tobias Menzies
Lieutenant Llewelyn
Eddie Marsan
James 'Tish' Corbitt
Timothy Spall
Albert Pierrepoint
James Corden
Kirky
Clive Francis
Field Marshall Montgomery
Juliet Stevenson
Annie Pierrepoint
Paul Ready
Anthony David Farrow
Cavan Clerkin
George Cooper
Claire Keelan
Jessie Kelly
Christopher Fulford
Sykes
Ann Bell
Violet Van Der Elst
Mary Jo Randle
Mrs Corbett
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Mary Pierrepoint
Simon Armstrong
Minister
Nicholas Blane
Governor of Strangeways
Robin Soans
Governor Paton-Walsh
Tim Woodward
Governor of Holloway
Mary Stockley
Ruth Ellis
Neil Fitzmaurice
Cliff the Scouser
Kate Rutter
Eileen
Bernard Kay
Uncle Tom
Lizzie Hopley
Dorothea Waddingham
Keiran Flynn
Neville
Clive Brunt
Warder at Strangeways
Marie Critchley
Woman in Pub
Bob Mills
Rodney Litchfield
Sellers
Sheyla Shehovich
Irma Grese
Ben McKay
Timothy Evans
Joyia Fitch
Elizabeth Volkenrath
Frances Shergold
Alice
Jack Lord
Jack Ellis
David Davies
Nazi Prisoner
Alex Helm
German Prisoner (uncredited)

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