Roger Ebert
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
Credits
Junket Whore (1998)
as Self
John Candy: I Like Me (2025)
as Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
Abby Singer (2003)
as Roger Ebert (uncredited)
The Outsider (2005)
as Self
Welcome to Hollywood (2000)
as Roger Ebert
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration (1993)
as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
Burden (2016)
as Self (archive footage)
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A. (2001)
as Self
All the Love You Cannes! (2002)
as Self
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover (2004)
Actor
Mysteries of Love (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Howard (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
as Self
Dead Teenager Movie (2006)
as Self
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005)
as Roger Ebert (uncredited)
An Almost Perfect Affair (1979)
as Self
Life Itself (2014)
as Self - Film Critic
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self
Don't You Forget About Me (2010)
as Self
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
as Self
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams (2008)
as Self
Cannes: All Access (2007)
as Self
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation (2000)
as Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis (2020)
as Self
Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)
as Self
Biography: Humphrey Bogart (2003)
as Self - Film Critic
Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
as Self (archive photo)
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009)
as Self
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove' (2004)
as Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault (2020)
as (archive footage)
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (2001)
as Self
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006)
as Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007)
as Self
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey (1991)
as Narrator (voice) / Introduction
Pitch (1997)
as Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007)
as Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo (2007)
as Self
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night' (1995)
as Self - Host
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide (1991)
as Self
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! (1996)
Actor
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy (2006)
as Self
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat (2004)
as Self
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage (1985)
as Self
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River (2004)
as Self
Independent's Day (1998)
as Self
Citizen Yuppie (1987)
as Citizen Yuppie