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Something the Lord Made
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
1940's England. When the world needed a hero, he gave them what they wanted. But history can be cruel.
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.
Top Billed 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
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