Roger Ebert
Acting
1942-06-18 · Urbana, Illinois, USA
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
TheatersMineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026 · Movie
John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Movie
Hollywood Black
2024 · Series
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Movie
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020 · Movie
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
2020 · Movie
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020 · Movie
Howard
2018 · Movie
Burden
2016 · Movie
Life Itself
2014 · Movie
The Thinking Molecules of Titan
2014 · Movie
Don't You Forget About Me
2010 · Movie
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · Movie
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009 · Movie
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
2008 · Movie
Cannes: All Access
2007 · Movie
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007 · Movie
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007 · Movie
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007 · Movie
Dead Teenager Movie
2006 · Movie
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
2006 · Movie
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006 · Movie
The Outsider
2005 · Movie
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005 · Movie
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004 · Movie
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004 · Movie
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Series
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004 · Movie
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004 · Movie
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
2004 · Movie
Abby Singer
2003 · Movie
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
2003 · Movie
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003 · Movie
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Movie
All the Love You Cannes!
2002 · Movie
Mysteries of Love
2002 · Movie
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2001 · Movie
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001 · Movie
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000 · Movie
Welcome to Hollywood
2000 · Movie
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999 · Movie
Junket Whore
1998 · Movie
Independent's Day
1998 · Movie
Pitch
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Early Edition
1996 · Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996 · Movie
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
1995 · Movie
The Critic
1994 · Series
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
1993 · Movie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
1991 · Movie
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
1991 · Movie
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
1988 · Series
Citizen Yuppie
1987 · Movie
At the Movies
1986 · Series
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1985 · Movie
At the Movies
1982 · Series
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1979 · Movie
An Almost Perfect Affair
1979 · Movie
Up!
1976 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
Sneak Previews
Series