Roger Ebert
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.539 |
| Birthday | 1942-06-18 |
| Place of Birth | Urbana, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Roger Joseph Ebert, Reinhold Timme, |
1987
Citizen Yuppie
4/1
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Citizen Yuppie
2010
Don't You Forget About Me
5.1/14
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Don't You Forget About Me
2003
Biography - Humphrey Bogart
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2023
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
7.7/160
A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stun...
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1997
Pitch
6.3/20
A Canadian documentary featuring two young filmmakers attending the Toronto Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film i...
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Pitch
2009
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
5.7/15
The story of American film criticism.
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2002
Searching for Debra Winger
6.3/15
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
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2002
Mysteries of Love
7.1/12
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the mak...
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Mysteries of Love
2005
The Outsider
6.2/5
Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be Loved -- a movie made without a script or distribut...
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The Outsider
1991
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
0/0
A retrospective documentary on the life and career of Ohio-born actress, singer and TV star Doris Day.
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Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
2014
Life Itself
7.501/343
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor...
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2005
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
4.5/30
Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip-page stratosphere, Jiminy Glick, a small-time journalist with big aspirations and...
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2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.3/6
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2016
Burden
5.9/13
A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.
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Burden
1995
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
6/1
Thirty years after A Hard Day's Night, its producer, director, writer and others describe its making. United Artists Records came to Walter Shenson, a...
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You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.241/106
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...
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2018
Howard
6.9/48
Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely...
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Howard
2001
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
6.8/3
A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation)...
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1985
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
0/0
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Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
1998
Independent's Day
5/4
Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.
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Independent's Day
2004
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
7/1
A documentary feature that reveals the creative process of Chicago moviemakers. Using the city's famous river as a location, directors are placed in...
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Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
0/0
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...
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Television: The First Fifty Years
2024
Faye
6.7/14
Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her...
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Faye
1998
Welcome to Hollywood
3.8/9
A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood...
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Welcome to Hollywood
2004
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
5.8/5
Documentary about actor Peter Sellers and one of his most memorable film roles.
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Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2003
Abby Singer
4.5/2
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2006
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
8/1
Retrospective documentary about the making of the 1970 cult film "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."
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Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
2007
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
6/3
This documentary about "2001: A Space Odyssey" looks at some of the things that seemed fanciful in 1968, which don't seem quite as much anymore.
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2001
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
9.7/3
This short documentary follows director Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki as they attend two film festivals showing the film Princess Mononoke...
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Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
2003
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
5.2/14
Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video examines the oftentimes tense relationship between sex, women, and popular Hollywood...
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Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
2004
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
5/5
A documentary exploring the historical concept of the narrative of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and...
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No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2007
Cannes: All Access
3.7/3
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red...
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Cannes: All Access
1996
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
0/0
This documentary celebrates the ridiculous stunts used by Hollywood over the years to market its worst movies. These include the ’50s drive-in where m...
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Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
2000
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
6.8/5
This biography, shown on American television as part of the PBS "Great Performances" series, examines the life works of one of Hollywood's most celebr...
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Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2020
AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS
6/1
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS is a brand new compilation of the most...
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2020
Kubrick by Kubrick
7.5/37
A rare and transcendent journey into the life and films of the legendary Stanley Kubrick like we've never seen before, featuring a treasure trove of u...
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2006
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
6.3/82
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
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Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
2002
All the Love You Cannes!
6.4/16
Known for what must be the cheapest and cheesiest of the indie film world, Troma films takes on Cannes with gallons of fake blood, the Tronettes, and...
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2006
Dead Teenager Movie
5.7/3
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2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
6/1
Cinematographer John A. Alonzo was one of the driving creative forces in the resurgence of expressionistic American movies of the late 1960s and '70s....
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1998
Junket Whore
0/0
A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood.
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2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
7.8/153
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office a...
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2004
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
0/0
He's furry, he's blue, and he's everyone's adorable, old pal, Grover, in his very own special! Come to the Flyers' Club Roost where everyone on Sesame...
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