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 (opening June 8 at Landmarks Hillcrest Cinemas) bears the subtitle The Last Hangman. Apparently that's not entirely accurate but the film proves to be a fascinating portrait of a man ...

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 ...

Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman is a biopic of England's most prolific modern executioner, and with a subject like that, tone is all. Shergold goes for a kind of gray-hued ...

The distributorplans a 2006 release on the picture, which stars Timothy Spall as Albert Pierrepoint,Britain's last Chief Hangman and arguably the country's best-known publicexecutioner.

We'll be talking a lot about Albert Pierrepoint this week, with the launch of the new film about his life. There's a fascinating online exhibition looking at three generations of executioners from ...

Bradford's Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's last executioner, hanged more than 600 men and women, including the Beast of Belsen and Ruth Ellis, during his 24-year career.

Pierrepoint resigned from the post of official executioner in 1956 over a pay dispute. Contentiously, the film suggests, however, that this was just an excuse and the hangman no longer had the ...

HANGMAN Albert Pierrepoint, one of British's last executioners, had an unlikely friendship with Princess Margaret's boxer bodyguard Chick ‘Cocky' Knight, according to a new book.