Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Winterbottom's first career choice was to be a teacher.

Von Trier's use of sexually explicit images in The Idiots ( 1998 ) started a wave of arthouse mainstream films with unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( 1999 ), Baise-Moi ( 2000 ), Intimacy ( 2001 ), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny ( 2003 ) and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs ( 2004 ).

A shortened version of " C ' mon C ' mon " was the theme song to the TV series Rescue Me and was performed live by the band in Michael Winterbottom's film 9 Songs.

In 1999, he starred in the second series of The Lakes as well as appearing as Jip in the award-winning cult clubbing film Human Traffic and Michael Winterbottom's acclaimed Wonderland.

In recent years explicit unsimulated sexual intercourse occurs in movies which target the general movie-going audience, albeit those usually labeled ' arthouse ' product ; for example, Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs and Lars von Trier's The Idiots.

Winterbottom's next two films both had distribution difficulties and were not widely seen.

Winterbottom's The Road to Guantanamo is a docu-drama about the " Tipton Three ", three British Muslims captured by US forces in Afghanistan who spent two years as prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as alleged enemy combatants.

This song also appeared in Michael Winterbottom's film 24 Hour Party People and in the 1991 documentary film Paris is Burning.

In Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, which focused on Factory Records, Hook was played by Ralf Little.

Winterbottom's sign, the tell-tale swollen lymph nodes along the back of the neck, may appear.

Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People follows the story of Tony Wilson and Factory Records, including the Madchester period and the Happy Mondays ' success.

Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People starring Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson, tells the story of the Haçienda.

Second, in 2006 Coogan starred with Rob Brydon in Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, a self-referential film of the " unfilmable " self-referential novel Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne.

* Whatever Happened To My Rock and Roll and Love Burns were performed live for Michael Winterbottom's film 9 Songs.

She also did a comic turn in Michael Winterbottom's well-regarded indie ensemble piece, A Cock and Bull Story, and appeared with Josh Hartnett in the 2008 release of August.

She followed this triumph in 1996 with the role of an earthy, ill-mannered pig farmer's daughter in Michael Winterbottom's Jude.

In March 2009, Aiken was cast as Johnnie Pappas in Michael Winterbottom's remake of The Killer Inside Me, starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson.

Winterbottom's Wire Works has long occupied the site, but the wooded hillside to the north is still known as Walk Mill Bank.

In October 2004, the BBFC granted an 18 certificate for Michael Winterbottom's movie 9 Songs, which features a number of explicit scenes of unsimulated sex.

Byrne was also a regular member of Walter Winterbottom's England team during the 1950s and was considered a possible captain of the national team after the retirement of the incumbent captain, Billy Wright.

The history of the Manchester music scene over this period was dramatised in Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People.

In October 2004, a new precedent appeared to be set when the BBFC granted an 18 certificate for Michael Winterbottom's film 9 Songs, which featured a number of lengthy explicit scenes of unsimulated sex.

Winterbottom's 1995 cinematic debut firmly established his intense visual sense, naturalistic style and compelling use of pop songs to reinforce narrative.

It was not Winterbottom's first time approaching the work, having already filmed the pig slaughter sequence at film school.

The film also marks the end of Winterbottom's lengthy collaboration with writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, who chose to be credited under the pseudonym Martin Hardy.

It made its American premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, alongside Winterbottom's following film.

Winterbottom's film of Jim Thompson's 1952 noir novel, starring Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba is a period film which follows a small town Texas sheriff ( Affleck ), who is also a psychotic killer, through his descent into complete madness.

If Chins Could Kill ... was published in 2002 and follows Campbell's career to date as an actor in low-budget films and television, providing his insight into " Blue-Collar Hollywood ".

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

A majority of the DeMille motion picture library now resides with EMKA, Ltd. through the television division of NBC Universal, due to Paramount Pictures ' losing the rights to the DeMille films in 1958 to EMKA, so technically it is Universal Pictures that now oversees a vast part of DeMille's motion picture career as well as its related archival material.

Rosenthal, noted for such television plays as Bar Mitzvah Boy, began his career on the show, writing over 150 episodes between 1961 and 1969.

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Benedict's career break came in 1978 when he appeared as Lieutenant Starbuck in the movie and television series Battlestar Galactica.

At age 11, he began his acting career, appearing on the British television soap opera Coronation Street, which was produced at Granada Studios by Granada Television in Manchester.

She used her Miss America scholarship money to study acting at HB Studios in New York City before moving to Hollywood to pursue a film and television career.

After filing for bankruptcy, Gracen was given a few television guest roles, as well as a supporting role in the made-for-television movie Interceptor Force 2, before taking a long leave of absence from her acting career in 2002.

In the 21st Century, Bloom is still enjoying a full and productive career, having appeared in dozens of films and television series produced up to and including 2010.

After the success of King Kong, Wray appeared in many major movie roles and on television, finishing her acting career in 1980.

However, due to financial exigencies she continued in her acting career, and over the next three decades, Wray appeared in certain film roles and also frequently on television.

He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

He is prone to removing his shirt at the slightest pretext and is said to have had romantic relations with most of the minor female characters who appeared throughout his television career.

The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and also was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons.

Frankenheimer began his directing career in live television at CBS.

Despite a relatively successful career in film and stage, Alexander never managed to repeat his Seinfeld-level of success in television.

He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television.

His career has spanned three continents including India, the United States and many European countries in three mediums: film, television and theatre.

His television career began in the early 1980s when he portrayed Stephen Smith in the NBC miniseries Kennedy.

Dunst began her career when she was three years old as a child fashion model in television commercials.

In 1961, Carl Reiner cast her in The Dick Van Dyke Show, an acclaimed weekly series based on Reiner's own life and career as a writer for Sid Caesar's television variety show, telling the cast from the outset that it would run no more than five years.

Fabian of the Yard was a television series filmed and transmitted by the BBC between 1954 and 1956, based upon the career of the by then retired Detective Inspector Robert Fabian.