Roger Ebert
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 18, 1942
- Died
- April 4, 2013 (aged 70)
- Birthplace
- Urbana, Illinois, USA
Biography
Roger Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, journalist, and screenwriter. Described by Forbes magazine as the "most powerful pundit in America", Ebert was the first film critic to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Ebert's began his criticizing career in 1967 as a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and later gained national recognition co-hosting a number of shows with Gene Siskel in which they coined the 'thumbs up- thumbs down' style of reviewing. Following Siskel's 1999 death Ebert continued to host "And The Movies" with Richard Roeper until 2006 when he stopped appearing due to developing Thyroid cancer. Complications from the cancer ended up taking much of his tongue and jaw, forcing Ebert to undergo massive reconstruction surgery and speak with the help of a computer program (which was configured with his own voice due to the volume of recorded spoken language from Ebert's TV show). He continued to write reviews for his website later in life. On April 3rd, 2013 announced his cancer had returned and he would be taking a "leave of presence", lowering the amount he would be writing and only reviewing films he wanted to review. Ebert succumbed to his cancer the next day, April 4th, 2013. The balcony is closed.
Known For
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Filmography
Sneak Previews
TV · as Himself
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie · as Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
Movie · as Self (archive photo)
Hollywood Black
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 4 eps
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Movie · as Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie · as (archive footage)
Kubrick by Kubrick
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Howard
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Burden
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
Movie · as Self - Film Critic
Don't You Forget About Me
Movie · as Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Movie · as Self
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
Movie · as Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Movie · as Self
Cannes: All Access
Movie · as Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Movie · as Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Movie · as Self
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
Movie · as Self
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Movie · as Self
Dead Teenager Movie
Movie · as Self
The Outsider
Movie · as Self
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Movie · as Roger Ebert (uncredited)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie · as Self
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Movie · as Self
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Movie · as Self
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Movie · as Self
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
Movie
The Tony Danza Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Movie · as Self - Film Critic
Abby Singer
Movie · as Roger Ebert (uncredited)
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Movie · as Self
Searching for Debra Winger
Movie · as Self
Mysteries of Love
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
All the Love You Cannes!
Movie · as Self
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Movie · as Self
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
Movie · as Self
Welcome to Hollywood
Movie · as Roger Ebert
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Movie · as Self
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie · as Self
Independent's Day
Movie · as Self
Junket Whore
Movie · as Self
Pitch
Movie · as Self
The View
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
Movie
The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Early Edition
TV · as Roger Ebert · 1 ep
E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 2 eps
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Movie · as Self - Host
The Critic
TV · as Roger Ebert (voice) · 1 ep
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Movie · as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Late Show with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 3 eps
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Movie · as Narrator (voice) / Introduction
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
Movie · as Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV · 1 ep
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Citizen Yuppie
Movie · as Citizen Yuppie
At the Movies
TV · as Self · 49 eps
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Movie · as Self
At the Movies
TV · 50 eps
An Almost Perfect Affair
Movie · as Self
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self (uncredited) · 2 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 3 eps