Roger Ebert
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.
Acting (40 movies)
Don't You Forget About Me
2010
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
2003
Pitch
1997
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
Mysteries of Love
2002
The Outsider
2005
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
1991
Life Itself
2014
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Burden
2016
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
1995
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Howard
2018
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1985
Independent's Day
1998
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
2004
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004
Abby Singer
2003
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
2006
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2001
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2003
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004
Cannes: All Access
2007
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
2020
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2006
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
Dead Teenager Movie
2006
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
Junket Whore
1998
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
1991
An Almost Perfect Affair
1979
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | 1970 | Screenplay |
| Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens | 1979 | Screenplay |
| Citizen Yuppie | 1987 | Writer |