The Long Shadow (2023)

The biggest manhunt in British history.

Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

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Michael McElhatton

Michael McElhatton

as CC Ronald Gregory

as DI Les Hanley

as DCS Jim Hobson

as DC John Nunn

as WPC Jenny Bush

David Morrissey

David Morrissey

as ACC George Oldfield as DCS George Oldfield

Steven Waddington

Steven Waddington

as Dick Holland

as Mike Dugdale

as DCS Dennis Hoban

Stephen Tompkinson

Stephen Tompkinson

Jasmine Lee-Jones

Jasmine Lee-Jones

as Marcella Claxton

Christopher Hatherall

Christopher Hatherall

as DCS John Domaille

as WPC Sue Neave

as PS Meg Winterburn

as Neil Jackson

as WPC Anna Lawson

as Irene MacDonald

as Margaret Oldfield

as PS Bob Blake as Bob Blake

as DC Andrew Laptew

Sorcha Groundsell

Sorcha Groundsell

as Nicola Briggs

as Sydney Jackson

as Calvin Thompson

Charlotte Tyree

Charlotte Tyree

as Caroline Armstrong

as WPC June Sinclair

Colin R. Campbell

Colin R. Campbell

Nicola Stephenson

Nicola Stephenson

as Elizabeth Jackson

Dorothy Atkinson

Dorothy Atkinson

as Jill Adams as WPC Jill Adams

as PC Ian Rudge

as Graham Jackson

as Wilf MacDonald

as PC Greg Clitheroe

as Maureen Long

Robert James-Collier

Robert James-Collier

as DCS Jack Ridgway

as Linda Arrowcroft

as DI David Zackrisson

Daisy Waterstone

Daisy Waterstone

as Jacqueline Hill

as Commander Jim Nevill

as Peter Sutcliffe

as Olivia Reivers

as Sonia Sutcliffe

as Michael Baxter

as Sonia McCann

as Richard McCann

Rebecca Hanssen

Rebecca Hanssen

Katherine Kelly

Katherine Kelly

as Emily Jackson

Melanie Kilburn

Melanie Kilburn

as Wilma McCann

as Steve Rawton

Rosa Hesmondhalgh

Rosa Hesmondhalgh

as Pam Hartwell

as WPC Judy Womack

Damien Matthews

Damien Matthews

as Coroner James Coverdale

as Nurse Beverley Dennings

as Irene Richardson

as Clifford Williams

as Dr. Alan Caplin

as Georgie Showalter

Michael Hawkins

Michael Hawkins

as Nigel Desford

as Patricia Atkinson

as Angus Brownley

as Mark Peterborough

as Donna DeAngelo

as Eamon Lister

Ian Lloyd Anderson

Ian Lloyd Anderson

as Terrence Hawkshaw

as Samantha Davies

as Elsie Hawkshaw

as Lizzie Deacon

as Tracy Browne

as Howard Cohen

Orla Fitzgerald

Orla Fitzgerald

as Anna Rogulskyj

as Ben Henderson

Lucie Shorthouse

Lucie Shorthouse

as Cindy Thornbury

Craig Anthony-Kelly

Craig Anthony-Kelly

as James Amberley

as Leonard Symes

Alexander Forsyth

Alexander Forsyth

as Jack Windsor Lewis

as Dylan Parker

as Sir David McNee

Chloe Rose Proctor

Chloe Rose Proctor

as Mrs. Watkins

Naomi Radcliffe

Naomi Radcliffe

as Mrs. Ashworth

as Lawrence Byford

as DS Des O'Boyle

as DCS Chris Gregg

Philip Hill-Pearson

Philip Hill-Pearson

as PS Robert Ring

as Desmond Wilcox

as PC Robert Hydes

as Richard McCann

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