Roger Ebert

Known for ActingBorn 1942-06-18Died 2013-04-04Urbana, Illinois, USA

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. Read more

Movies & web series

Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.

Hollywood Black

The Incredibly Strange Film Show

E! True Hollywood Story

Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy

John Candy: I Like Me

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'

Kubrick by Kubrick

Life Itself

Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

Early Edition

Waking Sleeping Beauty

The Critic

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Thinking Molecules of Titan

Mysteries of Love

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

Howard

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey

The Outsider

Abby Singer

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

Saturday Night Live

All the Love You Cannes!

At the Movies

The Tony Danza Show

Searching for Debra Winger

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Late Show with David Letterman

Pitch

The Daily Show

Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

Independent's Day

Burden

No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

Dead Teenager Movie

At the Movies

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Don't You Forget About Me