Ken Loach
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 17, 1936 (age 90)
- Birthplace
- Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Biography
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936; Nuneaton) is a retired British film director, screenwriter and producer. His humanist values and socialist political views are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991; The Navigators, 2001), and revolutionary struggle (Land and Freedom, 1995; The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006). Kenneth Charles Loach was born on 17 June 1936 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Vivien (née Hamlin) and John Loach. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and at the age of 19 went to serve in the Royal Air Force. He read law at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated with a third-class degree. As a member of the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club he directed an open-air production of Bartholomew Fair for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford, in 1959 (when he also took the role of the shady horse-dealer Dan Jordan Knockem). After Oxford, he began a career in the dramatic arts. Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice.
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Filmography
The Old Oak
Movie · Director
Sorry We Missed You
Movie · Director
I, Daniel Blake
Movie · Director
In Conversation With Jeremy Corbyn
Movie · Director
Jimmy's Hall
Movie · Director
The Spirit of '45
Movie · Director
The Angels' Share
Movie · Director
Route Irish
Movie · Director
Looking for Eric
Movie · Director
It's a Free World...
Movie · Director
To Each His Own Cinema
Movie · Director
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Movie · Director
Tickets
Movie · Director
McLibel
Movie · Director
Ae Fond Kiss...
Movie · Director
Sweet Sixteen
Movie · Director
September 11
Movie · Director
The Navigators
Movie · Director
Bread and Roses
Movie · Director
My Name Is Joe
Movie · Director
Another City: A Week in the Life of Bath's Football Club
Movie · Director
Carla's Song
Movie · Director
The Flickering Flame
Movie · Director
Land and Freedom
Movie · Director
A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership
Movie · Director
Modern Times
TV · Director · 1 ep
Ladybird Ladybird
Movie · Director
Raining Stones
Movie · Director
Riff-Raff
Movie · Director
The Arthur Legend
Movie · Director
Hidden Agenda
Movie · Director
The View from the Woodpile
Movie · Director
Time to Go
Movie · Director
Dispatches
TV · Director · 1 ep
Fatherland
Movie · Director
Split Screen
TV · Director · 1 ep
Which Side Are You On?
Movie · Director
End of the Battle... Not the End of the War
Movie · Director
The Red and the Blue
Movie · Director
Looks and Smiles
Movie · Director
A Question of Leadership
Movie · Director
The Gamekeeper
Movie · Director
Auditions
Movie · Director
Black Jack
Movie · Director
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
Movie · Director
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
Movie · Director
Days of Hope
TV · Director · 4 eps
Full House
TV · Director · 1 ep
Family Life
Movie · Director
Talk About Work
Movie · Director
The Save the Children Fund Film
Movie · Director
The Rank and File
Movie · Director
Kes
Movie · Director
Play for Today
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Big Flame
Movie · Director
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Golden Vision
Movie · Director
Poor Cow
Movie · Director
In Two Minds
Movie · Director
Cathy Come Home
Movie · Director
The End of Arthur's Marriage
Movie · Director
A Tap on the Shoulder
Movie · Director
Three Clear Sundays
Movie · Director
The Coming Out Party
Movie · Director
Up the Junction
Movie · Director
Wear a Very Big Hat
Movie · Director
The Wednesday Play
TV · Director · 11 eps
Diary of a Young Man
TV · Director · 3 eps
Teletale
TV · Director · 1 ep
Z-Cars
TV · Director · 3 eps