Roger Ebert
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Series
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
1975
Series
The View
Self
1997
Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Tony Danza Show
Self
2004
Series
Early Edition
Roger Ebert
1996
Series
The Critic
Roger Ebert (voice)
1994
Film
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
2025
Series
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
1993
Series
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Self
1988
Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Film
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Self
2003
At the Movies
1982
Series
At the Movies
Self
1986
Film
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
2005
Film
Howard
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
Kubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
2020
Film
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Self
2000
Film
Welcome to Hollywood
Roger Ebert
2000
Film
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self
2004
Film
An Almost Perfect Affair
Self
1979
Film
Junket Whore
Self
1998
Film
All the Love You Cannes!
Self
2002
Television: The First Fifty Years
Self
1999
Film
Don't You Forget About Me
Self
2010
Film
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
Self (archive footage)
2026
Film
The Outsider
Self
2005
Film
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
Self
2001
Film
Life Itself
Self - Film Critic
2014
Film
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Self
2007
Film
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Self
2004
Film
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive photo)
2024
Film
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
Film
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Self
2001
Film
Abby Singer
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
2003
Film
Cannes: All Access
Self
2007
Film
Burden
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Narrator (voice) / Introduction
1991
Film
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Self
2009
Film
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Self
2006
Film
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Self
2020
Film
Dead Teenager Movie
Self
2006
Film
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Self
2007
Film
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Self
2004
Film
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Self
2004
Film
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
2002
Film
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Self - Host
1995
Film
Pitch
Self
1997
Sneak Previews
Himself
Film
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
2007
Film
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
Roger Ebert
1991
Film
Mysteries of Love
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
Self
2006
Film
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Self - Film Critic
2003
Film
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
Self
2008
Film
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
Film
Independent's Day
Self
1998
Film
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Self
1985
Film
Citizen Yuppie
Citizen Yuppie
1987