Roger Ebert
Acting
Born 1942-06-18
Died 2013-04-04
Urbana, Illinois, USA
70 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Carl Sandburg Literary Award 1
Order of Lincoln 1
Pulitzer Prize 1
Awards
Won 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Carl Sandburg Literary Award 1 won
- 2011 Carl Sandburg Literary Award Won
Order of Lincoln 1 won
- 2001 Order of Lincoln Won
Pulitzer Prize 1 won
- 1975 Pulitzer Prize Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
52 credits
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Late Show with David Letterman
Saturday Night Live
The View
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Early Edition
The Tony Danza Show
The Critic
Hollywood Black
John Candy: I Like Me
Junket Whore
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Howard
Welcome to Hollywood
At the Movies
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Searching for Debra Winger
Kubrick by Kubrick
Abby Singer
Television: The First Fifty Years
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Life Itself
All the Love You Cannes!
The Outsider
Remembering Gene Wilder
Burden
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Mysteries of Love
An Almost Perfect Affair
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
Don't You Forget About Me
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Cannes: All Access
Sneak Previews
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Dead Teenager Movie
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Pitch
The Thinking Molecules of Titan
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Independent's Day
Other credits
5 credits
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
E! True Hollywood Story
At the Movies
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
Writing
3 credits
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