The programmes were not broadcast by Channel 4, a decision Loach claimed was politically motivated.

Loach opposes censorship in cinema and was outraged at the " 18 " certificate given to Sweet Sixteen.

In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.

Together with John Pilger and Jemima Khan, Ken Loach was among the six people in court willing to offer surety for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010.

Loach was interviewed by Theodoros Papadopoulos in December 1998.

The activity of IRA flying columns, such as the one under Tom Barry in west Cork, was popularised in the Ken Loach film The Wind That Shakes The Barley.

* The Ken Loach film Ladybird Ladybird was filmed at many sites around Acton including The Mount, the Town Hall, Vyner Road, Cumberland Park and parts of South Acton.

Matthew Saad Muhammad ( born Maxwell Antonio Loach, June 16, 1954 ) is a former boxer who was the world's light heavyweight champion.

He was spotted in a London pub by Ken Loach who asked him to star in his film Poor Cow.

Until 1893, when it was transferred to Herefordshire, Edvin Loach formed an exclave of Worcestershire in the hundred of Doddingtree.

Director Ken Loach was based in the village during his filming of Kes.

A major spur to the setting up of the charity was the public outcry and calls for action which followed the transmission in November 1966 of the BBC television play " Cathy Come Home " – written by Jeremy Sandford and directed by Ken Loach – which highlighted the plight of the homeless in Britain.

In 1965 it was adapted for television by the BBC as part of The Wednesday Play anthology strand directed by Ken Loach.

The play was written by Jeremy Sandford, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach, who went on to become a major figure in British film.

Loach employed a realistic documentary style, using predominantly 16mm film on location, which contrasted with the vast amount of BBC drama of the time, which was commonly made in the electronic television studio.

It was also shown at the British Film Institute in a 2011 Ken Loach film festival.

The 2004 film Ae Fond Kiss ..., directed by Ken Loach, was filmed in Pollokshields.

It was rated with four stars out of five possible in the British film magazine Empire, where reviewer Michael Hayden praised the performance by Oksana Akinshina while comparing the film to both the social realism of Ken Loach, and " the darkest of fairy tales, complete with wicked aunts and guardian angels.

This aspect was further examined by Ken Loach in part of an ( untransmitted ) documentary film series, Questions of Leadership ( 1983 ).

Loach minnow was proposed ( USDI, Fish and Wildlife Service 1985 ) and subsequently listed ( USFWS 1986 ) as a threatened species.

One of her more notable pupils was the internationally respected historian on mid-Tudor England, Jennifer Loach, a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.

Poor Cow was made into a film starring Carol White and Terence Stamp, under the direction of Ken Loach.

Kenneth " Ken " Loach ( born 17 June 1936 ) is a Palme D ' Or winning English film and television director.

Loach is a Patron of several charities, including Doorway, a homeless charity in Nuneaton, and Developing Health and Independence ( DHI ) in Bath.

His son Jim Loach has also become a television and film director.

* Other cast: Nicky Henson as Trooper Swallow, Wilfrid Brambell as Master Loach, Tony Selby as Salter, Bernard Kay as Fisherman, Godfrey James as Webb, Michael Beint as Captain Gordon, John Treneman as Harcourt, Bill Maxwell as Gifford, " Morris Jarr " ( pseudonym for Paul Ferris ) as Paul, Maggie Kimberly as Elizabeth, Peter Haigh as Lavenham Magistrate, Hira Talfrey as Hanged Woman, Anne Tirard as Old Woman, Peter Thomas as Farrier, Edward Palmer as Shepherd, David Webb as Jailer, Lee Peters as Sergeant, David Lyell as Footsoldier, Alf Joint as Sentry, Martin Terry as Hoxne Innkeeper, Jack Lynn as Brandeston Innkeeper, Beaufoy Milton as Priest, Dennis Thorne as Villager, Michael Segal as Villager, Toby Lennon as Old Man, Margaret Nolan as Girl at Inn, Sally Douglas as Girl at Inn, Donna Reading as Girl at Inn, Derek Ware as Boy at Hoxne Inn.

To name just a few: Willem Dafoe, Terry Gilliam, Anthony Hopkins, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Gregg Araki, John Malkovich, Carmen Maura, Rose McGowan, Frank Oz, Michel Piccoli, Robert Rodriguez, Susan Sarandon, Christian Slater, Alexander Sokurov, Wim Wenders and Gus Van Sant.

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

In 1966, Loach made the influential docudrama Cathy Come Home portraying working-class people affected by homelessness and unemployment, and presenting a powerful and influential critique of the workings of the Social Services.

In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

Ken Loach and His Films.

" Land and Freedom " contains a quintessentially Loach sequence of a 12 minute political discussion amongst villagers trying to decide whether or not a village's smallholdings should be collectivized.

On 28 May 2006, Loach won the Palme d ' Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War during the 1920s.

Throughout the 2000s Loach continued to intersperse wider political dramas such as Bread and Roses ( which focused on the Los Angeles janitors strike ) and Route Irish ( set in the Iraq occupation ) with smaller examinations of personal relationships.

Loach lives with his wife, Lesley, in Bath, where he is a supporter of and shareholder in Bath City F. C.

The film competed for the Palme d ' Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where Loach won the Jury Prize.

Ken Loach at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

De Sica's film had a particularly profound effect on Loach.

Loach makes great efforts to help the actors express themselves naturally and honestly.

" This explains how Loach regards politics and drama as intertwined, rather than existing in separate spheres.

A member of the Labour Party from the early 1960s, Loach left in the mid-1990s.

In May 2009, organisers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival returned a £ 300 grant from the Israeli Embassy after speaking with Ken Loach.