Ken Loach

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1936-06-17 (88 years old)

Place of Birth Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK

Also Known As Kenneth Charles Loach, 켄 로치, Kenneth Loach, 肯·洛奇, Кен Лоуч, 堅盧治

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.

Known For

Director

2023
The Old Oak

as Director

2019
2016
I, Daniel Blake

as Director

2014
Jimmy's Hall

as Director

2013
The Spirit of '45

as Director

2012
The Angels' Share

as Director

2011
Route Irish

as Director

2009
Looking for Eric

as Director

2007
2007
2005
Tickets

as Director

2005
McLibel

as Director

2004
Ae Fond Kiss...

as Director

2002
Sweet Sixteen

as Director

2001
The Navigators

as Director

2000
Bread and Roses

as Director

1998
My Name Is Joe

as Director

1996
Carla's Song

as Director

1996
1995
Land and Freedom

as Director

1995
Modern Times

as Director

1994
Ladybird Ladybird

as Director

1993
Raining Stones

as Director

1991
Riff-Raff

as Director

1991
The Arthur Legend

as Director

1990
Hidden Agenda

as Director

1989
Time to Go

as Director

1987
Dispatches

as Director

1986
Fatherland

as Director

1986
Split Screen

as Director

1985
1983
1981
Looks and Smiles

as Director

1981
1980
The Gamekeeper

as Director

1980
Auditions

as Director

1979
Black Jack

as Director

1975
Days of Hope

as Director

1973
A Misfortune

as Director

1972
Full House

as Director

1971
Family Life

as Director

1971
After a Lifetime

as Director

1971
The Rank and File

as Director

1971
Talk About Work

as Director

1970
Kes

as Director

1970
Play for Today

as Director

1969
The Big Flame

as Director

1968
The Golden Vision

as Director

1967
Poor Cow

as Director

1967
In Two Minds

as Director

1966
Cathy Come Home

as Director

1965
1965
1965
1965
Up the Junction

as Director

1965
1964
The Wednesday Play

as Director

1964
1963
Teletale

as Director

1962
Z-Cars

as Director

Actor

2024
2023
Cannes Uncut

as Self

2023
2023
2022
2021
2019
2016
2015
About Cinema

as Self

2014
We Are Many

as Self

2012
2012
Catastroika

as Self

2012
Square

as Self

2010
Making Kes

as Self

2009
Vittorio D.

as Self

2009
2001
Ken and Rosa

as Himself

1979
Question Time

as Self - Panellist

Writer

2014
Idyll

as Writer

2013
1996
The Flickering Flame

as Screenplay

1980
The Gamekeeper

as Writer

1979
Black Jack

as Writer

1973
A Misfortune

as Writer

1972
Full House

as Writer

1970
Kes

as Screenplay

1967
Poor Cow

as Screenplay

1966
Cathy Come Home

as Screenplay

Producer

2024
On Falling

as Executive Producer

2007
1985
1981
1980
Auditions

as Producer