Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1936-06-17 (Age: 90)
Place of Birth
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Ken Loach
Biography
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.
Filmography (43)
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
2025Censoring Palestine
2024
Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots
2024
The Bad Patriots
2024
Uomini in Marcia
2024
Cannes Uncut
2023
Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte
2023
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023
I Get Knocked Down
2023
C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando
2022
Thatcher's Not Dead
2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
A Bolsa ou a Vida
2021
Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"
2021
