About
Roger Ebert
Overview
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
Acting |
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| 2024 | Faye | Actor | Self - Film Critic (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2023 | STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| 2020 | Kubrick by Kubrick | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 60 Fair |
| 2020 | AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Howard | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Burden | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Life Itself | Actor | Self - Film Critic | 65 Fair |
| 2010 | Don't You Forget About Me | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2010 | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 63 Fair |
| 2009 | Waking Sleeping Beauty | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 61 Fair |
| 2009 | For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Cannes: All Access | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Dead Teenager Movie | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2006 | Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
| 2005 | The Outsider | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Actor | Self (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 2004 | No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Abby Singer | Actor | Roger Ebert (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Biography - Humphrey Bogart | Actor | Self - Film Critic | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | Sex at 24 Frames Per Second | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Mysteries of Love | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2002 | All the Love You Cannes! | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A. | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
| 2001 | It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Television: The First Fifty Years | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1998 | Junket Whore | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1998 | Welcome to Hollywood | Actor | Roger Ebert | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Independent's Day | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Pitch | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1995 | You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' | Actor | Self - Host | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey | Actor | Narrator (voice) / Introduction | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | Citizen Yuppie | Actor | Citizen Yuppie | N/A N/A |
| 1986 | At the Movies | Actor | 66 Fair |
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| 1985 | Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1982 | At the Movies | Actor | 68 Fair |
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| Sneak Previews | Actor | Himself | 70 Good |
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Directing |
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| 1987 | Citizen Yuppie | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
Writing |
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| 2014 | The Thinking Molecules of Titan | Writing | Short Story | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Citizen Yuppie | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
| 1979 | Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
| 1976 | Up! | Writing | Original Story | 58 Average |
| 1970 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
| 1970 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Writing | Story | 59 Average |