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.
Acted in
Faye
2024
as Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
as Self (archive footage)
AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS
2020
as Self
Howard
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Burden
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
2014
as Self - Film Critic
Don't You Forget About Me
2010
as Self
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as Self (archive footage)
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009
as Self
Cannes: All Access
2007
as Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007
as Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
as Self
Dead Teenager Movie
2006
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
2006
as Self
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006
as Himself
The Outsider
2005
as Self
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005
as Self (uncredited)
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004
as Self
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004
as Self
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
2004
as Self
Abby Singer
2003
as Roger Ebert (uncredited)
Biography - Humphrey Bogart
2003
as Self - Film Critic
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003
as Self
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Mysteries of Love
2002
as Self (archive footage)
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
as Self
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2001
as Himself
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
as Self
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
as Self
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
as Self
Junket Whore
1998
as Self
Welcome to Hollywood
1998
as Roger Ebert
Independent's Day
1998
as Self
Pitch
1997
as Self
Early Edition
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
1995
as Self - Host
The Critic
1994
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
1991
as Narrator (voice) / Introduction
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
1988
as Self
Citizen Yuppie
1987
as Citizen Yuppie
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1985
as Self