Ken Loach
Audiences rate Ken Loach’s films higher than 55% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
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The ThumbScore for Ken Loach (72.1%) is the average audience approval rating across 17 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Ken's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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, Warwickshire, the son of Vivien (née Hamlin) and John Loach. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and at the age of 19 went to serve in the Royal Air Force.
He read law at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated with a third-class degree. As a member of the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club he directed an open-air production of Bartholomew Fair for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford, in 1959 (when he also took the role of the shady horse-dealer Dan Jordan Knockem). After Oxford, he began a career in the dramatic arts. 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 nine filmmakers to win the award twice.
Born 1936-06-17 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK.
On ThumbScore, Ken Loach appears in 17 films with an average audience score of 72.1%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
Sources: TMDB
