Ken Loach
Directing
- Born:
- 1936-06-17
- Place of birth:
- Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Biography
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936; Nuneaton) is a retired British film director, screenwriter and producer. His humanist values and socialist political views are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991; The Navigators, 2001), and revolutionary struggle (Land and Freedom, 1995; The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006). 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
Filmography
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
Censoring Palestine
Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots
The Bad Patriots
Uomini in Marcia
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Cannes Uncut
Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
I Get Knocked Down
C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando
Thatcher's Not Dead
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Reel Britannia
A Bolsa ou a Vida
Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"
Victoria Wood: The Secret List
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
The Great NHS Heist
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
Who Killed British Cinema?
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
How to Make a Ken Loach Film
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
About Cinema
Il était une fois... « Rosetta »
We Are Many
Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
A Special Day
Catastroika
Square
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Making Kes
Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra
What Do You Know About Me
Vittorio D.
Great Directors
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
British Film Forever
Making Reel History
Carry On Ken
Carry On Ken
Ken and Rosa
Citizen Ken Loach
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Television
Question Time
The South Bank Show
Right to Work March
Film '72