Ken Loach
Highest Rated: 100% Kes (1969)
Lowest Rated: 50% Poor Cow (1967)
Birthday: Jun 17, 1936
Birthplace: Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Like the Italian neo-realists (especially Vittorio De Sica) who served as his inspiration, Ken Loach has acquired a reputation as the leading socially conscious director working in Britain. A quiet, soft-spoken man, he hardly seems the "dean of leftist movie makers" (as he was dubbed by the New York Times in June 1998). The son of a working-class factory worker, Loach served in the Royal Air Force, studied law and then worked in theater, first as an understudy and later touring Birmingham in a repertory company. To make end meet, he picked up work as a teacher.
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Ken Loach
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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82% |
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The Old Oak | Director | $229.7K | 2023 |
91% | No Score Yet | I Get Knocked Down | Self | - | 2022 |
93% |
|
Film, the Living Record of Our Memory | Self | $8.7K | 2021 |
88% |
|
Sorry We Missed You | Director | $28.3K | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Killed British Cinema? | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
70% | No Score Yet | Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life | Self | - | 2017 |
92% |
|
I, Daniel Blake | Director | $258.2K | 2016 |
100% |
|
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Self | - | 2016 |
83% |
|
We Are Many | Self | - | 2014 |
77% |
|
Jimmy's Hall | Director | $560.3K | 2014 |
67% |
|
The Spirit of '45 |
Director, Writer |
- | 2013 |
88% |
|
The Angels' Share | Director | $304.4K | 2012 |
73% |
|
Route Irish | Director | - | 2010 |
66% |
|
Great Directors | Self | $17.9K | 2009 |
84% |
|
Looking for Eric | Director | $55.8K | 2009 |
86% |
|
It's a Free World |
Director, Producer |
- | 2007 |
90% |
|
The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Director | $1.8M | 2006 |
71% |
|
Tickets | Director | - | 2005 |
88% |
|
Ae Fond Kiss ... | Director | - | 2004 |
77% |
|
11-09-01: September 11 |
Director, Writer |
$120.0K | 2002 |
97% |
|
Sweet Sixteen | Director | $304.7K | 2002 |
90% |
|
The Navigators | Director | $1.9K | 2001 |
67% |
|
Bread and Roses | Director | $536.5K | 2000 |
89% |
|
My Name Is Joe | Director | $346.7K | 1998 |
88% |
|
Carla's Song | Director | $18.4K | 1996 |
79% |
|
Land and Freedom | Director | $74.2K | 1995 |
75% |
|
Ladybird, Ladybird | Director | $137.2K | 1994 |
100% |
|
Raining Stones | Director | $7.2K | 1993 |
90% |
|
Riff-Raff | Director | $292.5K | 1991 |
86% |
|
Hidden Agenda | Director | $69.2K | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
|
Fatherland | Director | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
|
Looks and Smiles | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Question of Leadership |
Director, Producer |
- | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gamekeeper |
Director, Writer |
- | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
|
Black Jack |
Director, Writer |
- | 1979 |
80% |
|
Wednesday's Child | Director | - | 1971 |
100% |
|
Kes | Director | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Golden Vision | Director | - | 1968 |
50% |
|
Poor Cow |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
|
Cathy Come Home |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1965 |