Roger Ebert
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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
Credits
John Candy: I Like Me (2025)
as Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
Welcome to Hollywood (2000)
as Roger Ebert
Junket Whore (1998)
as Self
All the Love You Cannes! (2002)
as Self
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005)
as Roger Ebert (uncredited)
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Abby Singer (2003)
as Roger Ebert (uncredited)
The Outsider (2005)
as Self
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
An Almost Perfect Affair (1979)
as Self
Howard (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Cannes: All Access (2007)
as Self
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
as Self
Mysteries of Love (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
as Self
Burden (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
Don't You Forget About Me (2010)
as Self
Life Itself (2014)
as Self - Film Critic
Dead Teenager Movie (2006)
as Self
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams (2008)
as Self
Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
as Self (archive photo)
Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)
as Self
Independent's Day (1998)
as Self
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover (2004)
Actor
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault (2020)
as (archive footage)
Pitch (1997)
as Self
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration (1993)
as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A. (2001)
as Himself
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation (2000)
as Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide (1991)
as Roger Ebert
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo (2007)
as Self
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' (1995)
as Self - Host
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009)
as Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007)
as Self
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River (2004)
as Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis (2020)
as Self
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat (2004)
as Self
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove' (2004)
as Self
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! (1996)
Actor
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007)
as Self
Biography: Humphrey Bogart (2003)
as Self - Film Critic
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey (1991)
as Narrator (voice) / Introduction
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage (1985)
as Self
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (2001)
as Self
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 Self
Citizen Yuppie (1987)
as Citizen Yuppie