Ken Loach

Person · Open Library

Born

1936

Works

8

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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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1936

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

254

Total plays

555

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,520x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,412x

3. 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 15,393x

4. 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 10,814x

5. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,178x

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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.”

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Wikidata facts

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