Roger Ebert
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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Movies (53)
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026 · Self (archive footage)
John Candy: me agrado
2025 · Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Self (archive photo)
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020 · Self (archive footage)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
2020 · Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020 · (archive footage)
Howard
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Burden
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
2014 · Self - Film Critic
The Thinking Molecules of Titan
2014 · Short Story
Don't You Forget About Me
2010 · Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2010 · Self (archive footage)
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009 · Self
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
2008 · Self
Cannes: All Access
2007 · Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007 · Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007 · Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007 · Self
Película de adolescentes muertos
2006 · Self
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
2006 · Self
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006 · Self
The Outsider
2005 · Self
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005 · Roger Ebert (uncredited)
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004 · Self
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004 · Self
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Self
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
2004 · Self
Abby Singer
2003 · Roger Ebert (uncredited)
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
2003 · Self - Film Critic
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003 · Self
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Self
All the Love You Cannes!
2002 · Self
Mysteries of Love
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2001 · Self
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001 · Self
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000 · Self
Welcome to Hollywood
2000 · Roger Ebert
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999 · Self
Junket Whore
1998 · Self
Independent's Day
1998 · Self
Pitch
1997 · Self
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
1995 · Self - Host
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
1993 · Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
1991 · Narrator (voice) / Introduction
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
1991 · Self
Citizen Yuppie
1987 · Citizen Yuppie, Director, Writer
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1985 · Self
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1979 · Screenplay
An Almost Perfect Affair
1979 · Self
Up!
1976 · Original Story
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970 · Screenplay, Story
TV shows (17)
Hollywood Black
2024 · Self (archive footage)
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Self
The View
1997 · Self
El Diario del Destino
1996 · Roger Ebert
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
El Crítico
1994 · Roger Ebert (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
1988 · Self
At the Movies
1986 · Self
At the Movies
1982
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self (uncredited)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Sneak Previews
· Himself