Ruth Ellis: A Life for a Life Trailer (1999)

28 November 1999 Factual 60 mins

Documentary on Ruth Ellis, a Welsh-born model and actress, who was the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom. She went to the gallows of London's Holloway prison on July 13, 1955, for the gunshot murder of her lover, David Blakely, on Easter Sunday, April 10, of that same year. She was 28 at the time and was hanged, despite a 50,000-signature petition from the British public for leniency.

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Cast

Kirsty Wark as Self - Presenter

Fiona Ormiston as Ruth Ellis

John Light as David Blakely

Peter Forbes as Desmond Cussen

Julian Curry as Mr. Justice Havers

Philip Dunbar as Christmas Humphries

Alastair G. Cumming as Ant Findlater (as Alastair Cumming)

Crew

Farren Blackburn Director

Simon Ford Producer

Natasha Romaniuk First Assistant Director

International Releases Dates

United Kingdom 28 November 1999

Production Companies

BBC

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