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Roger Ebert
Urbana, Illinois, USA
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 fil…
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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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2026
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
Movie Self (archive photo)
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2020
Kubrick by Kubrick
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Movie Self
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2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
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2018
Howard
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
Burden
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Life Itself
Movie Self - Film Critic
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2014
The Thinking Molecules of Titan
Movie Short Story
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2010
Don't You Forget About Me
Movie Self
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2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
Movie Self
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2007
Cannes: All Access
Movie Self
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2006
Dead Teenager Movie
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2005
The Outsider
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2005
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Movie Roger Ebert (uncredited)
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2004
The Tony Danza Show
TV show Self
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2004
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Movie Self
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2003
Abby Singer
Movie Roger Ebert (uncredited)
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2003
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Movie Self - Film Critic
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2003
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Movie Self
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2002
Searching for Debra Winger
Movie Self
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2002
All the Love You Cannes!
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2002
Mysteries of Love
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
Movie Himself
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2000
Welcome to Hollywood
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