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person_profile-Ken Loach

Ken Loach Age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Ken Loach

Date of Birth:

Jun 17, 1936

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

Ken Loach

    Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936; Nuneaton) is a British film director, screenwriter and producer. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are 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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Ken Loach

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Filmography of

Ken Loach

Found 36 Movies in total

Cannes Uncut

Self ( Actor )

... 2023

... 2023

I Get Knocked Down

Self ( Actor )

... 2023

Thatcher's Not Dead

Self ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2022

A Bolsa ou a Vida

Self ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2021

... 2020

The Great NHS Heist

Himself ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2019

... 2018

... 2018

... 2018

How to Make a Ken Loach Film

Interviewee ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2016

... 2016

... 2016

... 2015

... 2015

We Are Many

Self ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2012

A Special Day

Self ( Actor )

... 2012

Catastroika

Self ( Actor )

... 2012

Making Kes

Himself ( Actor )

... 2010

... 2009

... 2009

Vittorio D.

Self ( Actor )

... 2009

Great Directors

Self ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2008

... 2006

Ken and Rosa

Himself ( Actor )

... 2001

Citizen Ken Loach

Self ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1990

... 1986

... 1985

... 1972