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Ken Loach

Ken Loach

Director · Born 1936-06-17 · Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK

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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), and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001). 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 …

Directed

  1. I, Daniel Blake (2016) — Director
  2. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) — Director
  3. Sorry We Missed You (2019) — Director
  4. The Angels' Share (2012) — Director
  5. Kes (1970) — Director
  6. The Old Oak (2023) — Director
  7. Looking for Eric (2009) — Director
  8. Land and Freedom (1995) — Director
  9. Sweet Sixteen (2002) — Director
  10. My Name Is Joe (1998) — Director
  11. Jimmy's Hall (2014) — Director
  12. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — Director
  13. Raining Stones (1993) — Director
  14. Ae Fond Kiss... (2004) — Director
  15. Bread and Roses (2000) — Director
  16. It's a Free World... (2007) — Director
  17. September 11 (2002) — Director
  18. Riff-Raff (1991) — Director
  19. Hidden Agenda (1990) — Director
  20. Route Irish (2011) — Director
  21. Ladybird Ladybird (1994) — Director
  22. Carla's Song (1996) — Director
  23. The Navigators (2001) — Director
  24. Family Life (1971) — Director
  25. Poor Cow (1967) — Director
  26. Tickets (2005) — Director
  27. Cathy Come Home (1966) — Director
  28. The Spirit of '45 (2013) — Director
  29. McLibel (2005) — Director
  30. Black Jack (1979) — Director
  31. Fatherland (1986) — Director
  32. Dispatches (1987) — Director
  33. Looks and Smiles (1981) — Director
  34. Play for Today (1970) — Director
  35. Up the Junction (1965) — Director
  36. The Flickering Flame (1996) — Director
  37. The Gamekeeper (1980) — Director
  38. The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965) — Director
  39. Z-Cars (1962) — Director
  40. Which Side Are You On? (1985) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) — Self
  2. Catastroika (2012) — Self
  3. Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016) — Self - Film Director
  4. Great Directors (2009) — Self
  5. We Are Many (2014) — Self
  6. Question Time (1979) — Self - Panellist
  7. Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2022) — Self
  8. Vittorio D. (2009) — Self
  9. Cannes Uncut (2023) — Self
  10. About Cinema (2015) — Self
  11. Film '72 (1971) — Self
  12. Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017) — Self
  13. Thatcher's Not Dead (2022) — Self
  14. To Make a Comedy Is No Fun (2016) — Self
  15. Reel Britannia (2022) — Self
  16. John Bishop: In Conversation with... (2016) — Self
  17. Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte (2023) — Self
  18. I Get Knocked Down (2023) — Self
  19. C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando (2022) — Sé stesso
  20. A Special Day (2012) — Self
  21. Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra (2009) — Himself
  22. CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel (2018) — Self
  23. Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake" (2021) — himself
  24. What Do You Know About Me (2009) — Self
  25. Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius (2025) — Self
  26. British Film Forever (2007)
  27. Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent (2012) — Himself
  28. 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight (2008) — Self
  29. Ken and Rosa (2001) — Himself
  30. Who Killed British Cinema? (2018) — Self
  31. Greg Davies: Looking for Kes (2019) — Self
  32. The Great NHS Heist (2019) — Himself
  33. Victoria Wood: The Secret List (2020) — Self
  34. Television (1985)
  35. Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie (2023) — (himself)
  36. The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' (1990) — Self
  37. A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema (1986) — Self
  38. Uomini in Marcia (2024)
  39. Il était une fois... « Rosetta » (2015) — Self
  40. Right to Work March (1972)