Ken Loach
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.
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- 2024 · Os Maus Patriotas as HIMSELF
- 2024 · Uomini in Marcia as
- 2023 · Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma as Self - Guest
- 2023 · Cannes Uncut as Self
- 2023 · Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte as Self
- 2023 · Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie as (himself)
- 2023 · I Get Knocked Down as Self
- 2022 · C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando as Sé stesso
- 2022 · Thatcher's Not Dead as Self
- 2022 · Film: The Living Record of Our Memory as Self
- 2022 · Reel Britannia as Self
- 2021 · A Bolsa ou a Vida as Self
- 2021 · Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake" as himself
- 2020 · Victoria Wood: The Secret List as Self
- 2020 · Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today as Self
- 2019 · The Great NHS Heist as Himself
- 2019 · Greg Davies: Looking for Kes as Self
- 2018 · Who Killed British Cinema? as Self
- 2018 · CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel as Self
- 2018 · The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema as
- 2016 · To Make a Comedy Is No Fun as Self
- 2016 · Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life as Self
- 2016 · John Bishop: In Conversation With... as Self
- 2016 · Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach as Self - Film Director
- 2015 · About Cinema as Self
- 2015 · Il était une fois... « Rosetta » as Self
- 2014 · We Are Many as Self
- 2012 · Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent as Himself
- 2012 · A Special Day as Self
- 2012 · Catastroika as Self
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · The Story of Film: An Odyssey as Self
- 2010 · Making Kes as Self
- 2009 · Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra as Himself
- 2009 · What Do You Know About Me as Self
- 2009 · Vittorio D. as Self
- 2009 · Great Directors as Self
- 2008 · 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight as Self
- 2006 · Carry On Ken as
- 2006 · Carry on Ken as
- 2001 · Ken and Rosa as Himself
- 1993 · The South Bank Show: Ken Loach as Interviewee
- 1990 · The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' as Self
- 1986 · A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema as Self
- 1985 · Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman as Self
- 1979 · Question Time as Self - Panellist
- 1972 · Right to Work March as