# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-loach
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:53:00.053Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 17 June 1936, Kenneth Charles Loach became the rare British filmmaker whose socialism wasn't subtext but structure. Cathy Come Home in 1966 made homelessness impossible to look away from; Poor Cow the next year kept the lens on poverty. Kes in 1969 — later voted the seventh greatest British film of the century — proved you could make poetry from a kid and a kestrel in a failing northern town. He kept going: labour rights in Riff-Raff in 1991 and The Navigators in 2001, then the Palme d'Or for The Wind That Shakes the Barley in 2006 and again for I, Daniel Blake a decade later, joining only nine other directors in that club. Fifteen films in Cannes competition, more than anyone. He retired having never softened the edge.