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Ken Loach
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
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…
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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), 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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2026
Forgotten Spaceman
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Palestine 36
Movie Thanks
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2025
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
TV show Self
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2025
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
Movie Self
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2024
Censoring Palestine
Movie Self
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2024
Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots
Movie HIMSELF
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2024
The Bad Patriots
Movie
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2024
Uomini in Marcia
Movie
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2023
The Old Oak
Movie Director
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2023
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
TV show Self - Guest
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2023
Cannes Uncut
Movie Self
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2023
Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte
Movie Self
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2023
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
Movie (himself)
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2023
I Get Knocked Down
Movie Self
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2022
C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando
Movie Sé stesso
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2022
Thatcher's Not Dead
Movie Self
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2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Movie Self
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2022
Reel Britannia
TV show Self
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2021
A Bolsa ou a Vida
Movie Self
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2021
Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"
Movie himself
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2020
Victoria Wood: The Secret List
TV show Self
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2020
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Movie Self – Director
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2019
The Great NHS Heist
Movie Himself
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2019
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
Movie Self
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2019
Sorry We Missed You
Movie Director
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2018
Who Killed British Cinema?
Movie Self
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2018
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Movie Self
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2016
How to Make a Ken Loach Film
Movie self
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2016
I, Daniel Blake
Movie Director
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2016
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
Movie Self
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2016
In Conversation With Jeremy Corbyn
Movie Director
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2016
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
TV show Self
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2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Movie Self - Film Director
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2015
About Cinema
Movie Self
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2015
Il était une fois... « Rosetta »
Movie Self
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2014
We Are Many
Movie Self
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2014
Jimmy's Hall
Movie Director
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2014
Idyll
Movie Writer
