He was born in 1936 in Nuneaton, He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and went on to study law at St. Peter Hall in Oxford, After a brief stint in the theater, Loach was hired by the BBC in 1963 as an apprentice television director, This kicked off a long career directing films and documentaries for television and film, from Cathy Come Home and Kes in the 1960s to Land and Freedom, Sweet Sixteen and The Wind That Caresses the Grass in recent years.

FILMOGRAPHY:
Television
1964 Diary of a Young Man
1965 Three Clear Sundays
1965 Up the Junction
1965 The Coming Out Party
1966 The End of Arthur’s Marriage
1966 Cathy Come Home
1966 The Golden Vision
1967 In Two Minds
1969 The Big Flame
1970 In Black and White
1971 After a Lifetime
1972 The Rank and File
1975 Days of Hope
1977 The Price of Coal
1978 Auditions
1979 The Gamekeeper
1980 A Question of Leadership
1983/4 Questions of Leadership
1984 Which Side Are You On?
1991 Dispatches – The Arthur Legend
1996 The Flickering Flame
1998 Another City

Feature films
1967 Poor Cow
1969 Kes
1972 Family Life
1979 Black Jack
1981 Looks and Smiles
1986 Fatherland
1990 Hidden Agenda
1991 Riff-Raff
1993 Raining Stones
1994 Ladybird Ladybird
1995 Land and Freedom
1996 Carla’s Song
1998 My Name Is Joe
2000 Bread and Roses
2001 The Navigators
2002 Sweet Sixteen
2002 11’09’01 (Short film)
2003 Ae Fond Kiss
2004 Tickets (Short film)
2005/6 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2007 Il’s a Free World