Roger Ebert
Acting • Born 1942-06-18 – Died 2013-04-04
Biography
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
62 credits
Citizen Yuppie
Movie • 1987
Citizen Yuppie
Don't You Forget About Me
Movie • 2010
Self
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Movie • 2003
Self - Film Critic
Pitch
Movie • 1997
Self
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Movie • 2009
Self
Searching for Debra Winger
Movie • 2002
Self
Mysteries of Love
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
The Outsider
Movie • 2005
Self
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Movie • 1991
Narrator (voice) / Introduction
Life Itself
Movie • 2014
Self - Film Critic
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Movie • 2005
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie • 2004
Self
Burden
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Movie • 1995
Self - Host
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Howard
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Movie • 2001
Self
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Movie • 1985
Self
Independent's Day
Movie • 1998
Self
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Movie • 2004
Self
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie • 1999
Self
Welcome to Hollywood
Movie • 2000
Roger Ebert
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Movie • 2004
Self
Abby Singer
Movie • 2003
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
Movie • 2006
Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Movie • 2007
Self
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
Movie • 2001
Himself
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Movie • 2003
Self
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Movie • 2004
Self
Cannes: All Access
Movie • 2007
Self
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
Movie • 1996
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Movie • 2000
Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Movie • 2020
Self
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Movie • 2006
Self
All the Love You Cannes!
Movie • 2002
Self
Dead Teenager Movie
Movie • 2006
Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Movie • 2007
Self
Junket Whore
Movie • 1998
Self
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
Movie • 2004
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie • 2020
(archive footage)
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
Movie • 1991
Roger Ebert
An Almost Perfect Affair
Movie • 1979
Self
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Movie • 1993
Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie • 2025
Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
Kubrick by Kubrick
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
Movie • 2008
Self
The Tony Danza Show
TV • 2004
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
The Critic
TV • 1994
Roger Ebert (voice)
Early Edition
TV • 1996
Roger Ebert
The View
TV • 1997
Self
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
At the Movies
TV • 1986
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
At the Movies
TV • 1982
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
TV • 1988
Self
Sneak Previews
TV
Himself
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)
Late Show with David Letterman
TV • 1993
Self - Guest