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Overview: 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