Roger Ebert
Age: N/A | From: Urbana, Illinois, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Roger Joseph Ebert , Reinhold Timme
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Urbana, Illinois, USA
Homepage: https://www.rogerebert.com/
Movie Involvements: 36
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
(2023) Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
(2010) Self (archive footage)
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
(1988) Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
(2009) Self (archive footage)
Life Itself
(2014) Self - Film Critic
Howard
(2018) Self (archive footage)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
(2003) SelfActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2020 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Himself | ||
| 2018 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2014 | Self - Film Critic | |
| 2010 | Himself | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2009 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self | ||
| 2007 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| Himself | ||
| 2005 | Self | |
| Self (uncredited) | ||
| 2004 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2003 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2002 | Self | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| Self | ||
| 2001 | Himself | |
| Self | ||
| 2000 | Self | |
| 1998 | Self | |
| Roger Ebert | ||
| Self | ||
| 1997 | Himself | |
| Self | ||
| 1996 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
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| Self | ||
| 1995 | Host | |
| 1994 | N/A | |
| 1993 | Self - Guest | |
| 1992 | N/A | |
| 1991 | Himself - Narrator & Introduction | |
| 1988 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| 1987 | Citizen Yuppie | |
| 1986 | N/A | |
| 1985 | Self | |
| 1982 | N/A | |
| Himself | ||
| Self - Film Critic | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Short Story | |
| 1987 | Writer | |
| 1979 | Screenplay | |
| 1976 | Original Story | |
| 1970 | Story | |
| Screenplay | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |