Timothy Spall is the perfect choice to play Albert Pierrepoint, the British hangman who executed some 450 people from 1932 to 1955—one look at Spall’s lopsided glare and you’d probably jump ...

Pierrepoint was born in Yorkshire in 1905. His father and uncle were hangmen, part of a small class of state-appointed “official executioners,” and young Albert aimed to take up their trade.

Albert Pierrepoint delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his father's footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion, rising to become 'the best in the land ...

Albert Pierrepoint executed some of Britain's most notorious murderers and was sent to Germany to hang more than 200 Nazi war criminals after World War Two. Show more Using archive recordings ...

Summary lowing in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert Pierrepoint joins the 'family business' in 1934. He rises through the ranks to become the most feared and respected ...

Since Albert Pierrepoint was among Britain’s most prolific (though in point of fact not its last) hangmen – the film credits him with over 608 hangings – there’s good reason for the film ...

The winner: Lord Kemsley’s Sunday Empire News (circ. 1,961,230), which paid a reported £40,000 ($112,000) for Pierrepoint’s own story of how, in 26 years, he took 433 men and 17 women to the ...

Albert Pierrepoint, the Lancashire grocery deliveryman who doubled as England s most prolific and self-effacing executioner between 1934 and 1956, was not, as the title of Adrian Shergold s new ...

lowing in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert Pierrepoint joins the 'family business' in 1934. He rises through the ranks to become the most feared and respected executioner ...