Roger Ebert

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    Roger Joseph Ebert, Reinhold Timme

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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. 

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1942-06-18
  • event Death Date 2013-04-04
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 6.9
  • info Birth Place Urbana, Illinois, USA
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4

Citizen Yuppie

1987-11-01

5.2

Don't You Forget About Me

2010-07-13

0

Biography - Humphrey Bogart

2003-10-05

7.7

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

2023-01-20

6.5

Pitch

1997-09-04

5.7

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

2009-03-01

6.3

Searching for Debra Winger

2002-07-13

7.1

Mysteries of Love

2002-06-04

6.2

The Outsider

2005-12-04

0

Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey

1991-11-16

7.6

Life Itself

2014-07-04

4.5

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

2005-05-08

7.3

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004-07-25

5.9

Burden

2016-04-16

6

You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'

1995-01-01

7.3

Waking Sleeping Beauty

2009-09-05

6.9

Howard

2018-04-22

6.8

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

2001-05-01

0

Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

1985-01-01

5

Independent's Day

1998-01-15

7

Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River

2004-04-01

0

Television: The First Fifty Years

1999-01-01

7

Faye

2024-05-15

3.8

Welcome to Hollywood

1998-10-01

5.8

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

2004-10-28

4.5

Abby Singer

2003-10-28

8

Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy

2006-06-30

6

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

2007-10-23

9.7

Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.

2001-11-21

5.2

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

2003-09-23

5

No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat

2004-10-28

3.7

Cannes: All Access

2007-10-27

0

Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

1996-08-13

6.8

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

2000-11-08

6

AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS

2020-05-06

7.6

Kubrick by Kubrick

2020-10-22

6.4

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

2006-06-20

6.4

All the Love You Cannes!

2002-05-16

5.7

Dead Teenager Movie

2006-07-25

6

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

2007-01-01

0

Junket Whore

1998-10-12

7.9

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

2010-05-04

6.1

The Tony Danza Show

2004-09-13

6.4

The Daily Show

1996-07-22

7.4

The Critic

1994-01-26

7.3

Early Edition

1996-09-28

4.5

The View

1997-08-11

8.1

E! True Hollywood Story

1996-08-21

5.4

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992-05-25

5.4

At the Movies

1986-09-13

7.1

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993-09-13

5.9

At the Movies

1982-09-26

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962-10-01

5.4

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988-09-05

10

The Incredibly Strange Film Show

1988-08-05

7.7

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