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The Last Hangman
''Pierrepoint'' is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the UK on 7 April 2006. In the United States, it had a limited theatrical release at three screens on 7 June 2007, grossing $21,766. It was released on DVD on 30 October 2007. Commissioned as a television film in 2004, ''Pierrepoint'' was broadcast on ITV on 25 August 2008, when it attracted an estimated audience of 3.6 million. The film was renamed ''Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman'' for its North American release, although Pierrepoint was not the last British hangman. Premise The film is loosely based on the life of Britain's most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint (played by Timothy Spall), from the time he is trained for the job and accepted onto the list of the country's official hangmen in 1932 until his resignation in 1956. The film is a highly fictionalised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Shergold
Adrian Shergold (born 24 March 1948 in Croydon, Surrey) is a British film and television director. Selected filmography *'' Pierrepoint'' (2005) *'' Funny Cow'' (2017) *'' Cordelia'' (2019) *Denmark (2019) Selected television *'' Christabel'' (1988) *''Devil's Advocate'' (1995) *'' Holding On'' (1997) *'' Eureka Street'' (1999) *'' The Second Coming'' (2003) *'' Danielle Cable: Eyewitness'' (2003) *'' Dirty Filthy Love'' (2004) *''Ahead of the Class'' (2005) *''Persuasion'' (2007) *'' Clapham Junction'' (2007) *'' He Kills Coppers'' (2008) *'' Mad Dogs'' (2011) *''Vera'' (2011) *''Lucan'' (2013) *''My Mother and Other Strangers'' (2016) Selected theatre *''Chorus Girls ''Chorus Girls'' was a 1981 musical written by The Kinks lead singer and songwriter Ray Davies, who collaborated with ''The Long Good Friday'' screenwriter Barrie Keeffe.Kitts, Thomas M.. Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else'. N.p., Taylor & ...'' (1981) References British film directors Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guardian
Guardian usually refers to: * Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another * ''The Guardian'', a British daily newspaper (The) Guardian(s) may also refer to: Places * Guardian, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community in Webster County * Guardian Nunatak, a landform on Antarctica's Dufek Coast * Guardian Rock, an islet off the Antarctic Peninsula in Bigourdan Fjord * Guardian telephone exchange, Manchester, England * Wonder Mountain's Guardian, a roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario People * GuardiaN (Ladislav Kovács; born 1991), Slovak professional video-game player * Angel Guardian (born 1998), Filipina actress and singer * Don Guardian (born 1953), mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Guardian (comics), characters from various comics * Guardian (DC Comics), a DC Comics superhero * Guardian (''Highlander''), a charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Van Der Elst
Violet Van der Elst (4 January 1882 – 30 April 1966) was a British entrepreneur and campaigner best remembered for her activities against the death penalty. Biography She was born Violet Anne Dodge, the daughter of a coal porter and a washerwoman, she herself worked as a scullery maid. In 1903, she married Henry Arthur Nathan, a civil engineer 13 years her senior. She developed cosmetics including Shavex, the first brush-less shaving cream and became a successful businesswoman. After her first husband died on 15 November 1927, she married Jean Julien Romain Van der Elst, a Belgian who had been working for her as a manager but was also a painter. Having amassed a huge personal fortune she purchased Harlaxton Manor, in Lincolnshire, England in 1937. She restored the house, having renamed it Grantham Castle, and had it wired for electricity. She gained publicity from her vocal campaigns against capital punishment, and stood three times, unsuccessfully, as an independent candid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Bell
Ann Forrest Bell (born 29 April 1938) is a British actress, best known for playing war internee Marion Jefferson in the BBC Second World War drama series '' Tenko'' (1981– 84). Life and career Ann Forrest Bell was born in Wallasey, Cheshire on 29 April 1938, the daughter of John Forrest Bell and Marjorie (née Byrom) Bell. She was educated at Birkenhead High School. Bell played the title role in a BBC adaptation of ''Jane Eyre'' (1963) in addition to many guest roles on television, including ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'', ''Gideon's Way'', '' The Avengers'', '' The Sentimental Agent'', '' The Saint'', ''Armchair Theatre'', ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' (1965), ''Danger Man'', '' The Baron'', ''Mystery and Imagination'', '' The Troubleshooters'', '' Callan'', ''Journey to the Unknown'', ''Sherlock Holmes'' (the 1968 episode "The Sign of Four" with Peter Cushing), '' Department S'', ''The Lost Boys'', ''Enemy at the Door'', '' Shoestring'', '' Tumbledown'', '' Blackeyes'', '' Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Shaw (singer)
Ian Shaw (born 2 June 1962) is a British jazz singer, broadcaster, record producer, actor and comedian. Shaw was born in St. Asaph, Wales. At eighteen he moved to London where he studied music at King's College London. His career in performance began in the 1980s working in piano bars in the UK and abroad, both solo and as a duo with composer Andrew Phillips (guitar). On the alternative cabaret circuit, he appeared alongside such performers as Julian Clary, Rory Bremner, and Jo Brand. Shaw co-founded the band Brave New World with Adrian York, touring with them and playing at venues that included Hammersmith Odeon and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. He recorded his first album ''Lazy Blue Eyes'' (1990), a collaboration with fellow singer Carol Grimes. By the mid-1990s, he was regularly performing at the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and he released three albums on the club's Jazz House label: ''Ghostsongs'' (1992), a tribute to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart titled '' Taking It to Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Fulford
Christopher Fulford (born 1955) is a British actor who is best known for his supporting roles in many British TV shows, one of the earliest being punk Alex in the short lived sitcom '' Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself'' (1981–82). Career Fulford was born in London. In his early career he often appeared in British crime dramas, appearing in both the ITV crime series ''Inspector Morse'' episode "Driven to Distraction" (1990) and as a killer in the early '' A Touch of Frost'' episode "Widows and Orphans" (1994). He played the role of Kaspar Van Beethoven in the movie ''Immortal Beloved'' (1994). In 1993, Fulford starred in the BBC adaptation of '' Scarlet and Black'' alongside the virtually unknown Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz. He appeared as a vigilante in '' Dalziel & Pascoe,'' a corrupt ex-footballer in '' The Fix'' and Mr. Hunter in the TV series '' Hornblower''. Fulford was featured as the murderer in the Hollywood film '' D-Tox'' (2002, with Sylvester Stallone) and sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jo Randle
Mary Jo Randle (born 26 April 1954) is an English actress from Rochdale, Lancashire working in theatre and television. After a childhood in Littleborough, Randle left home to study for a degree in drama at the University of Birmingham but switched course to Social Administration. Upon graduation she applied and was accepted for a place at RADA, where she was the recipient of the Bancroft Gold Medal. In 1981 she won Most Promising Actress at the Ronson awards. Mary Jo Randle is best known for her roles as Jo Morgan in ''The Bill'' (1993–1995) and Bernie Quinlan in '' The Lakes.'' She has also featured in ''Holby City'', ''Emmerdale'', '' Victoria Wood as Seen on TV'', ''The Royal'', ''Casualty'', ''Doctors'', '' Heartbeat'', ''Inspector Morse'', ''Dalziel and Pascoe'', '' Bad Behaviour'', '' Wire in the Blood'' and a public information film Public information films (PIFs) are a series of government-commissioned short films, shown during television advertising breaks in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavan Clerkin
Cavan Clerkin (born 1973) is a British actor and filmmaker from Hackney, London. He is known for ''The Capture'' (2019-2022), '' The Last Kingdom'' (2017-2022), ''Muscle'' (2019) and BAFTA nominated comedy '' Pulling'' (2006). He wrote, produced and starred in feature film ''Nice Guy'' (2012) and has appeared in a wide range of British TV and film. He won Best Actor at Tallinn Black Nights 2019. Career Clerkin has appeared in various TV shows including '' Smack the Pony'', '' The Inbetweeners'' and '' The IT Crowd'', and feature films '' Gangster No. 1'', '' Pierrepoint'', and ''Muscle''. He co-wrote and starred in the comedy series '' Los Dos Bros'' (2002) with Darren Boyd. He played alongside Sharon Horgan in BAFTA nominated sitcom '' Pulling'' (2006–2009), and appeared in the soap opera ''EastEnders'' (2009) as Joel Reynolds. He played Leonard Glickman in TV thriller '' The Shadow Line'' (2011); and DCI Gerring in the ITV drama '' Lucan'' (2013). He wrote, produced and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Waddingham
Dorothea Nancy Waddingham (21 June 1899 – 16 April 1936) was an English nursing home matron who was convicted of murder. Life Dorothea Waddingham was born Dorothy Nancie Merelina Allan Chandler, with her parents marrying a year after her birth – Waddingham being her father's surname. Dorothea was born on a farm near Nottingham. She has been referred to as "Nurse" Waddingham because the two murders she was accused and convicted of were committed in a nursing home she ran near Nottingham in England. However, she was not a qualified nurse and the only medical training she received was as a ward-maid at an infirmary near Burton-on-Trent. In 1925, under the name of Dorothea Nancy Waddingham, she married Thomas Willoughby Leech. He was twice her age and dying of cancer. During their marriage, she served two prison terms for fraud and for theft. The couple had three children. Leech died in 1933, at which time Waddingham was seeing another man named Ronald Joseph Sullivan. Sullivan h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Hopley
Lizzie Hopley is a British actress and writer born in Liverpool who trained at Manchester University and RADA. Acting work Hopley's notable film and TV work include the forthcoming feature film ''Fackham Hall'', co-written by Jimmy Carr and Dawson Bros; '' Black Doves'' with Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw; Steve McQueen's '' Blitz''; '' The Reckoning (BBC/ITV)'', ''The Crown'' (Netflix), ''Time'' (BBC), ''The Devil's Hour'' (Amazon Studios), '' Brassic'', '' Soulmates'' (Amazon AMC), '' The Long Song'' (BBC/Heyday Films), '' Little Boy Blue'' (ITV), '' Luther'' (BBC), Cary Fukunaga's ''Jane Eyre'', '' Pierrepoint'' with Timothy Spall, '' The Thirteenth Tale'' with Vanessa Redgrave, '' The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'' (ITV), '' Any Human Heart'' (C4), '' The Day of the Triffids'' (BBC) with Eddie Izzard and '' Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)''. She recently appeared in the Globe Theatre's 2024 summer season in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' and Anne Odeke's historic debut plaPrinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945) was a in the SS and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944) and Bergen Belsen (from December 1944 to its liberation on 15 April 1945) concentration camps. Dubbed ''The Beast of Belsen'' by camp inmates, he was a German Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. He was detained by the British Army after the Second World War, convicted of war crimes, and hanged on the gallows in the prison at Hamelin by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. Early life Josef Kramer, an only child, was born and raised in Munich in a middle-class family. His parents, Theodore and Maria Kramer, brought him up as a strict Roman Catholic. In 1915, the family moved from Munich to Augsburg, where Josef Kramer attended school. He began an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1920. From 1925 to 1933, except for working in a department store and as an accountant, he was mostly unem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Evans
Timothy John Evans (20 November 1924 – 9 March 1950) was a Welsh lorry driver who was wrongfully accused of murdering his wife Beryl and infant daughter Geraldine at their residence in Notting Hill, London. In January 1950, Evans was tried and convicted of the murder of his daughter, and on 9 March he was executed by hanging. During his trial, Evans accused his downstairs neighbour, John Christie, who was the chief prosecution witness in the case against him, of committing the murders. Three years after Evans's execution, Christie was found to be a serial killer who had murdered several other women in the same house, including his own wife Ethel. Christie was himself sentenced to death, and while awaiting execution, he confessed to having murdered Mrs. Evans. An official inquiry concluded in 1966 that Christie had murdered Evans's daughter Geraldine, and Evans was granted a posthumous pardon. The High Court dismissed proceedings to officially quash Evans's murder convictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
