Roger Ebert
Known for: Acting
Born: June 18, 1942
Died: April 4, 2013
Place of birth: Urbana, Illinois, USA
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.
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Filmography
53 movies · 17 TV shows, newest first
NR
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026
7.8
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
3.0
Hollywood Black
2024
7.3
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
7.3
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
6.5
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
2020
NR
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
6.8
Howard
2018
5.8
Burden
2016
7.5
Life Itself
2014
7.0
The Thinking Molecules of Titan
2014
5.3
Don't You Forget About Me
2010
7.2
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
5.8
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009
NR
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
2008
3.2
Cannes: All Access
2007
6.0
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007
6.2
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007
6.0
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
5.7
Dead Teenager Movie
2006
8.0
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
2006
6.3
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006
6.8
The Outsider
2005
4.4
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005
5.8
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004
5.8
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
20046.4
The Tony Danza Show
2004
NR
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
8.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
7.5
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
2004
6.8
Abby Singer
2003
NR
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
2003
5.3
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003
6.4
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
6.5
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
7.1
Mysteries of Love
2002
9.7
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2001
7.4
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
7.1
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
4.2
Welcome to Hollywood
2000NR
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
5.5
Junket Whore
1998
6.0
Independent's Day
1998
6.5
Pitch
1997
4.3
The View
1997
7.4
Early Edition
1996
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
NR
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
8.0
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
1995
7.3
The Critic
1994
7.0
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
1993
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
6.4
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
7.0
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
1991
6.0
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
1991
5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
9.0
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
1988
4.0
Citizen Yuppie
1987
6.0
At the Movies
1986
NR
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
19856.8
At the Movies
1982
5.3
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1979
5.0
An Almost Perfect Affair
1979
5.6
Up!
1976
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
6.1
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
19628.0
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