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List of British actors. ... This list of notable actors from the United Kingdom includes ... (born 1994) (British-French) Nell Tiger Free (born 1999) Poppy Lee ...
Hangmen is a play by the British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2015, before transferring to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre. [1] The play was directed by Matthew Dunster, designed by Anna Fleischle, and featured David Morrissey and Reece Shearsmith among others.
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 [1] and was released in the UK on 7 April 2006. [2] In the United States, it had a limited theatrical release at three screens on 7 June 2007, grossing $21,766.
Albert Pierrepoint (/ ˈ p ɪər p ɔɪ n t / PEER-point; 30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him. Pierrepoint was born in Clayton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His family struggled ...
A welder in civilian life, Dernley was dubbed, albeit incorrectly, as also Albert Pierrepoint, "the last British hangman" (in fact, this title belongs jointly to Harry Allen and Robert Leslie Stewart). More accurately, Dernley was one of the last surviving hangmen, following the deaths of both Pierrepoint and Allen in 1992.
Pages in category "British male film actors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 633 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "21st-century British male actors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 353 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was assistant executioner at (often assisting his uncle, Thomas Pierrepoint), the other numbers are those in ...