Biography
Ken Loach is a British film director and screenwriter. He was born Kenneth Charles Loach on 17 June 1936 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. After national service in the Royal Air Force he read law at St Peter's College, Oxford, and began working in television at the BBC in the early 1960s.
His early feature films include Poor Cow (1967) and Kes (1969), the latter adapted from Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave with a screenplay co-written by Loach, Hines and Tony Garnett. Loach has directed numerous films addressing social and political themes. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) each received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His later work includes The Old Oak (2023).
