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Roger Ebert
Born · June 18, 1942
Died · April 4, 2013 (70 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Urbana, Illinois, USA
Bio
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.
Faye
Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
6.7
2024
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.7
2023
Kubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
7.5
2020
AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS
Self
6.0
2020
Howard
Self (archive footage)
6.9
2018
Burden
Self (archive footage)
5.9
2016
Life Itself
Self - Film Critic
7.5
2014
Don't You Forget About Me
Self
5.1
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Self (archive footage)
7.8
2010
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
7.2
2009
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Self
5.7
2009
Cannes: All Access
Self
3.7
2007
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Self
6.0
2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
6.0
2007
Dead Teenager Movie
5.7
2006
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
Self
8.0
2006
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Himself
6.3
2006
The Outsider
Self
6.2
2005
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Self (uncredited)
4.5
2005
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Self
5.8
2004
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Self
5.0
2004
The Tony Danza Show
Self · (3 episodes)
6.1
2004
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
0.0
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self
7.3
2004
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Self
7.0
2004
Abby Singer
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
4.5
2003
Biography - Humphrey Bogart
Self - Film Critic
0.0
2003
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Self
5.2
2003
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
6.3
2002
Mysteries of Love
Self (archive footage)
7.1
2002
All the Love You Cannes!
Self
6.4
2002
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
Himself
9.7
2001
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Self
6.8
2001
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Self
6.8
2000
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self
0.0
1999
Junket Whore
Self
0.0
1998
Welcome to Hollywood
Roger Ebert
3.8
1998
Independent's Day
Self
5.0
1998
Pitch
Self
6.3
1997
The View
Self · (1 episode)
4.4
1997
Early Edition
(1 episode)
7.3
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
(2 episodes)
8.0
1996
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
0.0
1996
The Daily Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.4
1996
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Self - Host
6.0
1995
The Critic
(1 episode)
7.3
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
7.1
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(3 episodes)
5.4
1992
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Narrator (voice) / Introduction
0.0
1991
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
(1 episode)
5.2
1988
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Self · (1 episode)
10.0
1988
Citizen Yuppie
Citizen Yuppie
4.0
1987
At the Movies
(49 episodes)
5.5
1986
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Self
0.0
1985
At the Movies
(50 episodes)
6.1
1982
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (2 episodes)
7.4
1962
Sneak Previews
Himself · (0 episode)
7.7