Roger Ebert
ActingRoger 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
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
Howard
Self (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
Self - Film Critic
Welcome to Hollywood
Roger Ebert
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
An Almost Perfect Affair
Self
Cannes: All Access
Self
Filmography — Acting
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
Howard
Self (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
Self - Film Critic
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self
Welcome to Hollywood
Roger Ebert
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
An Almost Perfect Affair
Self
Cannes: All Access
Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Self
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Self
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self
Kubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
Junket Whore
Self
Pitch
Self
Abby Singer
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
The Outsider
Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Self
Don't You Forget About Me
Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Self
Mysteries of Love
Self (archive footage)
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Self - Film Critic
All the Love You Cannes!
Self
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Self
Dead Teenager Movie
Self
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Self
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
Roger Ebert
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Self
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
Himself
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Narrator (voice) / Introduction
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
Independent's Day
Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Self
Burden
Self (archive footage)
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Self
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Self
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Self - Host
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
Self
Citizen Yuppie
Citizen Yuppie
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
Self
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Self
