Ken Loach
Highest Rated: 100% Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (2021)
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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | No Score Yet | Film, the Living Record of Our Memory | Self | $6.4K | 2021 |
| 87% | 81% | 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% | 85% | I, Daniel Blake | Director | $258.2K | 2016 |
| 100% | 83% | Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach | Self | - | 2016 |
| 83% | 70% | We Are Many | Self | - | 2014 |
| 76% | 61% | Jimmy's Hall | Director | $560.3K | 2014 |
| 67% | 65% | The Spirit of '45 |
Director, Writer |
- | 2013 |
| 89% | 78% | The Angels' Share | Director | $304.4K | 2012 |
| 73% | 52% | Route Irish | Director | - | 2010 |
| 66% | 43% | Great Directors | Self | $17.9K | 2009 |
| 84% | 78% | Looking for Eric | Director | $55.8K | 2009 |
| 86% | 71% | It's a Free World |
Director, Producer |
- | 2007 |
| 90% | 87% | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Director | $1.8M | 2006 |
| 71% | 76% | Tickets | Director | - | 2005 |
| 89% | 77% | Ae Fond Kiss ... | Director | - | 2004 |
| 77% | 66% | 11-09-01: September 11 |
Director, Writer |
$120.0K | 2002 |
| 97% | 88% | Sweet Sixteen | Director | $304.7K | 2002 |
| 89% | 83% | The Navigators | Director | $1.9K | 2001 |
| 67% | 79% | Bread and Roses | Director | $536.5K | 2000 |
| 89% | 86% | My Name Is Joe | Director | $346.7K | 1998 |
| 88% | 80% | Carla's Song | Director | $18.4K | 1996 |
| 79% | 94% | Land and Freedom | Director | $74.2K | 1995 |
| 67% | 84% | Ladybird, Ladybird | Director | $137.2K | 1994 |
| 100% | 91% | Raining Stones | Director | $7.2K | 1993 |
| 90% | 83% | Riff-Raff | Director | $292.5K | 1991 |
| 85% | 72% | Hidden Agenda | Director | $69.2K | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Fatherland | Director | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | 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 | 73% | Black Jack |
Director, Writer |
- | 1979 |
| 80% | 87% | Wednesday's Child | Director | - | 1971 |
| 100% | 91% | Kes | Director | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Golden Vision | Director | - | 1968 |
| 50% | 79% | Poor Cow |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | Cathy Come Home |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1965 |