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