Roger Ebert
Acting
- Born:
- 1942-06-18
- Died:
- 2013-04-04
- Place of birth:
- Urbana, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
John Candy: I Like Me
Hollywood Black
Remembering Gene Wilder
Kubrick by Kubrick
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Howard
Burden
Life Itself
The Thinking Molecules of Titan
Don't You Forget About Me
Waking Sleeping Beauty
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
Cannes: All Access
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Dead Teenager Movie
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
The Outsider
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
The Tony Danza Show
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Abby Singer
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Searching for Debra Winger
All the Love You Cannes!
Mysteries of Love
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Welcome to Hollywood
Television: The First Fifty Years
Junket Whore
Independent's Day
Pitch
The View
Early Edition
E! True Hollywood Story
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
The Daily Show
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
The Critic
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Citizen Yuppie