Ken Loach

Known for DirectingBorn 1936-06-17 (age 89)Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK

Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936; Nuneaton) is a British film director, screenwriter and producer. His socially critical directing style is 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 at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice.Read more

Movies & web series

The Great NHS Heist

Modern Times

Reel Britannia

Diary of a Young Man

About Cinema

Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte

Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"

Palestine 36

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership

I, Daniel Blake

The Red and the Blue

Thatcher's Not Dead

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

I Get Knocked Down

The Coming Out Party

Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra

Sorry We Missed You

The Old Oak

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Land and Freedom

My Name Is Joe

Victoria Wood: The Secret List

Greg Davies: Looking for Kes

John Bishop: In Conversation with...

Ladybird Ladybird

Kes

What Do You Know About Me

The Angels' Share

Ken and Rosa

Sweet Sixteen

Family Life

In Two Minds

Z-Cars

The Navigators

The View from the Woodpile

Jimmy's Hall

Hidden Agenda

Raining Stones

We Are Many

Black Jack

Auditions

Carla's Song

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Days of Hope

Catastroika

The Save the Children Fund Film

Up the Junction