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Ken Loach
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English film director and screenwriter (born 1936)
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Ken Loach, born Kenneth Charles Loach in 1936 in Nuneaton, is a British film director, screenwriter, and television director. He began his professional career in 1962 and has worked for the BBC. Loach is a member of the Labour Party and speaks English. His works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
His notable films include *I, Daniel Blake* and *Hidden agenda*. Loach has received several awards, including the Palme d'Or, the Jury Prize, the César Award for Best Foreign Film, and the Praemium Imperiale. He has also been nominated for the European Film Award for Best Film and the European Film Award for Best Director. His son is Jim Loach.
Synthesized by Vinony from 47 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1936
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Chômage, précarité
- Ken Rōchi
- I, Daniel Blake
- Hidden agenda
- I, Daniel Blake
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
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,…
Known for
- The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues — Self2025
- Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius — Self2025
- Uomini in Marcia2024
- Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots — HIMSELF2024
- Censoring Palestine — Self2024
- The Bad Patriots2024
- Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie — (himself)2023
- Cannes Uncut — Self2023
- Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte — Self2023
- I Get Knocked Down — Self2023
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1936
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 254
- Total plays
- 555
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ken+Loach">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,790x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,241x
via Crossref · CC0
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- b. 1936
- Nationality
- GB, GBR
- Role / Field
- Television writers, Television producers and directors, Screenwriters, Motion picture producers and directors, Filmregissor, Television production and direction
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 32 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Quotes
- “Kes is really about the colossal wastages of kids, whose lives and abilities are written off before they're even in their teens. We chose to make it in Barnsley, we chose a Secondary modern school on a new estate that's becoming shabby. But it could have been one of hundreds of schools or estates. We didn't happen to unearth one child star, there were several kids in that one school who could have done the main part, [Billy Casper].”
- “I don't think people exist outside of their social situation. You can't abstract people from their environment. It always baffles me when people ask why I don't direct a comedy or a thriller. I think they would be much more artificial fields in which to work. The great expanse of people is really rather interesting.”
- “You can't treat mental health on an assembly line, which is the way it is now organised.”
- “[Screenings of Loach's work suffered during this period] You are only part of a process of communication with a lot of people who have no chance to be heard at all. [...] The suppression of that is much more important than the problems of individual filmmakers.”
- “[On politics in the 1960s] There was a feeling that there was a great possibility of political change. Obviously, no one knew in what form it would come, but there was a sense that the working class was getting politically conscious, particularly those involved in occupations and industrial disputes.The quality of political discussion was higher. People understood die analysis even if they disagreed with it.”
- “[On where he fits on the left] I would have thought if you want to align yourself to any left current, the one to follow would be the one that fought Stalinism at the outset, and that was the left opposition and [[Leon Trotsky|[Leon] Trotsky]]. So I think that socialist current is the one I care to be identified with.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kenneth
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Nuneaton
- Child
- Jim Loach
- Occupation
- television director
- Educated at
- St Peter's College
- Employer
- BBC
- Political party
- Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Ken Loach Cannes 2014.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- Commons category
- Ken Loach
- date of birth
- 1936-06-17
- birth name
- Kenneth Charles Loach
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Ken Loach
- social media followers
- 70484
- name in native language
- Ken Loach
- pseudonym
- Ken Loach
Sources (11)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is a retired English filmmaker. His socially critical directing style and socialist 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).
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 ten filmmakers to win the award twice. He also holds the record for the most films screened in the main competition at Cannes with 15.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ken Loach” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.