Roger Ebert

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-06-18 (71 years old)

Deathday

2013-04-04

Place of Birth

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Roger Ebert

Biography

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 devel...

Acting

1987

Citizen Yuppie

as Citizen Yuppie

2003

Biography: Humphrey Bogart

as Self - Film Critic

1997

Pitch

as Self

2002

Mysteries of Love

as Self (archive footage)

2005

1991

Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey

as Narrator (voice) / Introduction

2014

Life Itself

as Self - Film Critic

2005

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

as Roger Ebert (uncredited)

2016

Burden

as Self (archive footage)

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Howard

as Self (archive footage)

2024

Faye

as Self - Film Critic (archive footage)

2000

Welcome to Hollywood

as Roger Ebert

2003

Abby Singer

as Roger Ebert (uncredited)

2020

Kubrick by Kubrick

as Self (archive footage)

1998

Production

1976

Up!

as Original Story

1987

Citizen Yuppie

as Director

1987

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