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Name
Ken Loach

Known For
Directing

Birthday
1936-06-17 (90 years old)

Place of Birth
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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2022 Film: The Living Record of Our Memory as Self
2023 Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie as (himself)
2023 Cannes Uncut as Self
2023 Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte as Self
2012 Catastroika as Self
2012 Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent as Himself
2023 I Get Knocked Down as Self
2022 Thatcher's Not Dead as Self
2014 We Are Many as Self
2008 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight as Self
1990 The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' as Self
2022 C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando as Sé stesso
1986 A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema as Self
2015 About Cinema as Self
2024 Uomini in Marcia
2001 Ken and Rosa as Himself
2016 Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach as Self - Film Director
2015 Il était une fois... « Rosetta » as Self
2009 Great Directors as Self
2017 Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life as Self
2009 Vittorio D. as Self
1972 Right to Work March
2018 The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2012 A Special Day as Self
2018 Who Killed British Cinema? as Self
2009 Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra as Himself
1985 Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman as Self
2019 Greg Davies: Looking for Kes as Self
2019 The Great NHS Heist as Himself
2018 CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel as Self
2020 Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today as Self – Director
2016 To Make a Comedy Is No Fun as Self
2021 Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake" as himself
2006 Carry On Ken
2009 What Do You Know About Me as Self
2010 Making Kes as Self
2021 A Bolsa ou a Vida as Self
2024 Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots as HIMSELF
1997 Citizen Ken Loach as Self
2024 Censoring Palestine as Self
2016 How to Make a Ken Loach Film as self
2025 The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues as Self
2024 The Bad Patriots
2006 Making Reel History as Self

2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey ( 1 episode ) as Self
2022 Reel Britannia ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2016 John Bishop: In Conversation with... ( 1 episode ) as Self
2012 Square ( 1 episode ) as Self
1979 Question Time ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Panellist
2006 Carry On Ken ( 1 episode )
2020 Victoria Wood: The Secret List ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2023 Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2025 Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2007 British Film Forever ( 1 episode )
1985 Television ( 2 episodes )
1971 Film '72 ( 4 episodes ) as Self
1978 The South Bank Show ( 1 episode )

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