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.
Filmography (65 titles)
MovieMineshaft: The Cruising Murders
Self (archive footage) · 2026
7.9MovieJohn Candy: I Like Me
Self - Film Critic (archive footage) · 2025
3.7ShowHollywood Black
Self (archive footage) · 2024
7.2MovieRemembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive photo) · 2024
7.5MovieKubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage) · 2020
6.5MovieAGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Self · 2020
MovieThe AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage) · 2020
6.8MovieHoward
Self (archive footage) · 2018
5.8MovieBurden
Self (archive footage) · 2016
7.5MovieLife Itself
Self - Film Critic · 2014
5.3MovieDon't You Forget About Me
Self · 2010
7.2MovieWaking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage) · 2009
5.7MovieFor the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Self · 2009
MovieDark City: The Architecture of Dreams
Self · 2008
3.8MovieCannes: All Access
Self · 2007
6.0MovieVision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Self · 2007
6.2MovieStanding on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Self · 2007
6.0MovieThe Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self · 2007
5.7MovieDead Teenager Movie
Self · 2006
8.0MovieAbove, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
Self · 2006
6.3MovieMidnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Self · 2006
6.8MovieThe Outsider
Self · 2005
4.3MovieJiminy Glick in Lalawood
Roger Ebert (uncredited) · 2005
5.8MovieBest Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Self · 2004
5.8MovieNo Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Self · 2004
The Tony Danza Show
Self · 2004
MovieSesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
8.0MovieSam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self · 2004
7.5MovieChicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Self · 2004
6.8MovieAbby Singer
Roger Ebert (uncredited) · 2003