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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 18, 1942
Died
April 4, 2013
Place of Birth
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Roger Joseph Ebert
- Reinhold Timme
Roger Ebert
0.4 Popularity
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
7.8
Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
6.5
Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
2020
0.0
(archive footage)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
6.8
Self (archive footage)
Howard
2018
5.8
Self (archive footage)
Burden
2016
7.5
Self - Film Critic
Life Itself
2014
5.3
Self
Don't You Forget About Me
2010
7.2
Self (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
5.7
Self
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009
3.8
Self
Cannes: All Access
2007
Credits
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
2025
7.8
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
as Self
2020
6.5
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
2020
0.0
Howard
as Self (archive footage)
2018
6.8
Burden
as Self (archive footage)
2016
5.8
Life Itself
as Self - Film Critic
2014
7.5
Don't You Forget About Me
as Self
2010
5.3
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
2009
7.2
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
as Self
2009
5.7
Cannes: All Access
as Self
2007
3.8
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
as Self
2007
6.0
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
as Self
2007
6.0
Dead Teenager Movie
as Self
2006
5.7
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
as Self
2006
8.0
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
as Self
2006
6.3
The Outsider
as Self
2005
6.2
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
as Roger Ebert (uncredited)
2005
4.1
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
as Self
2004
5.8
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
as Self
2004
5.0
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
6.1
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
0.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self
2004
7.8
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
as Self
2004
7.0
Abby Singer
as Roger Ebert (uncredited)
2003
6.3
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
as Self - Film Critic
2003
0.0
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
as Self
2003
4.9
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
2002
6.3
All the Love You Cannes!
as Self
2002
6.4
Mysteries of Love
as Self (archive footage)
2002
7.1
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
as Himself
2001
9.7
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
as Self
2001
6.8
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
as Self
2000
6.8
Welcome to Hollywood
as Roger Ebert
2000
3.8
🎬
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self
1999
0.0
Junket Whore
as Self
1998
3.5
Independent's Day
as Self
1998
5.0
Pitch
as Self
1997
6.3
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Early Edition
as Roger Ebert
1996
7.3
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
0.0
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
as Self - Host
1995
6.0
The Critic
as Roger Ebert (voice)
1994
7.3
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
as Self(segment "Monster in the Mirror")
1993
6.0
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
as Narrator (voice) / Introduction
1991
0.0
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
as Roger Ebert
1991
0.0
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
5.4
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
as Self
1988
10.0
🎬
Citizen Yuppie
as Citizen Yuppie
1987
4.0
At the Movies
1986
5.6
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
as Self
1985
0.0
🎬
At the Movies
1982
6.3
An Almost Perfect Affair
as Self
1979
4.5
Saturday Night Live
as Self (uncredited)
1975
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
🎬
Sneak Previews
as Himself
N/A
7.7