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Ken Loach
Director, Writer, Producer, ActorBorn June 17, 1936 (89 years)
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.
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.
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Ken Loach Filmography
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| 1987 | Dispatches (TV Series) |
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| 1975 | Days of Hope (TV Series) |
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| 1970 | Play for Today (TV Series) |
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| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV Series) |
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| 1964 | The Wednesday Play (TV Series) |
| 1963 | Teletales (TV Series) |
| 1962 | Z Cars (TV Series) |
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| 1996 | The Flickering Flame · as Screenplay |
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| 1969 | Kes · as Screenplay |
| 1967 | Poor Cow · as Screenplay |
| 1965 | Cathy Come Home · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play (TV Series) · as Screenplay |
| 2025 | Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2024 | Os Maus Patriotas · as Himself |
| 2024 | 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2023 | Yallah Gaza · as Self |
| 2023 | Les héritiers de la Commune · as Self |
| 2023 | Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2023 | Margaret Thatcher, l'inoxydable · as Self |
| 2023 | Cannes Uncut · as Self |
| 2023 | KEN LOACH: The ART of ACTIVISM · as Self |
| 2022 | Reel Britannia (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story (TV Series) · as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2021 | I Get Knocked Down · as Self |
| 2021 | This Cultural Life (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | Film: The Living Record of Our Memory · as Self |
| 2021 | Why Are We (Not) Creative? · as Self |
| 2021 | A Bolsa ou a Vida · as Self |
| 2020 | Victoria Wood: The Secret List (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Ethos · as Self |
| 2019 | Greg Davies: Looking for Kes · as Self |
| 2018 | CzechMate: In Search of Jirí Menzel · as Self |
| 2017 | Quan arribin els marcians (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2017 | Um Filme de Cinema · as Self |
| 2017 | 2017 EE British Academy Film Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 2016 | Water and Sugar · as Self |
| 2016 | Jirí Menzel - To Make a Comedy Is No Fun · as Self |
| 2016 | John Bishop: In Conversation With... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach · as Self - Film Director |
| 2014 | We Are Many · as Self |
| 2014 | The British Film Industry: Elitist, Deluded or Dormant? · as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2012 | Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent · as Himself |
| 2012 | Football Rebels · as Self |
| 2012 | Une journée particulière · as Self |
| 2012 | Catastroika · as Self |
| 2011 | The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2010 | Nieuwsuur (TV Series) · as Self - Regisseur |
| 2010 | Sunday Morning Live (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | Celuloide Colectivo · as Himself |
| 2009 | Vittorio D. · as Self |
| 2009 | C à Vous (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | Great Directors · as Self |
| 2008 | 40 x 15 · as Self |
| 2007 | British Film Forever (TV Series) · as Self |
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| 2006 | The 2006 European Film Awards · as Self - Nominee |
| 2006 | The ONE Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | Cannes 2006: Crónica de Carlos Boyero · as Self |
| 2005 | The 100 Greatest War Films · as Self |
| 2004 | The Culture Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Kulturplatz (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV Series) · as Self |
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| 2003 | Il était une fois... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Timeshift (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Ken and Rosa · as Himself |
| 2001 | Football Focus (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2000 | BBC Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1997 | HARDtalk (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Cartelera (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1993 | Hollywood U.K. (1993) (TV Series) · as Self - Contributor |
| 1991 | Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1989 | Cinéma, de notre temps (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Channel 4 News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | Newsnight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | Question Time (TV Series) · as Self - Panellist |
| 1979 | Antiques Roadshow (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1976 | César Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Winner |
| 1971 | Film (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2024 | On Falling · as Executive Producer |
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| 2024 | Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots · as Cast |
| 2022 | Once Upon a Time in Italy · as Sé Stesso |
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| 1964 | The Wednesday Play (TV Series) · as Documentary Crew Member |