Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
17 Jun, 1936 (88 years old)

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

Victoria Wood: The Secret List
HD
2020

Victoria Wood: The Secret List

Documentary
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
HD
60 min 2019

Greg Davies: Looking for Kes

Documentary
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
HD
90 min 2016

Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life

Documentary
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
HD
93 min 2016

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Documentary

By browsing this website, you accept our cookies policy.