Roger Ebert

ActorWriterDirector Jun 18 (died age 70) Urbana, Illinois, USA 1962–2025 (63 year career)

6.2 avg rating

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 revi…

Known For

Film

Life Itself

Self - Film Critic

Film

John Candy: I Like Me

Self - Film Critic (archive footage)

Film

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Self (archive footage)

Film

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Screenplay

Film

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

Self

Film

Howard

Self (archive footage)

Film

Up!

Original Story

Film

Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens

Screenplay

Filmography

Acting (61)

Movies (45)

John Candy: I Like Me

2025

as Self - Film Critic (archive footage)

7.9

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

2020

as Self

6.5

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020

as (archive footage)

Howard

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

Burden

2016

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

Life Itself

2014

as Self - Film Critic

7.5

Don't You Forget About Me

2010

as Self

5.3

Waking Sleeping Beauty

2009

as Self (archive footage)

7.2

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

2009

as Self

5.7

Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams

2008

as Self

Cannes: All Access

2007

as Self

3.8

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

2007

as Self

6.0

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

2007

as Self

6.0

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

2006

as Self

8.0

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

as Self

Dead Teenager Movie

as Self

The Outsider

as Self

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

2005

as Roger Ebert (uncredited)

4.2

Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self

7.8

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

2004

as Self

5.8

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

2004

as Self

5.0

Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River

2004

as Self

7.0

Abby Singer

2003

as Roger Ebert (uncredited)

6.3

Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

2003

as Self

5.0

Biography: Humphrey Bogart

2003

as Self - Film Critic

All the Love You Cannes!

2002

as Self

6.4

Mysteries of Love

2002

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

Searching for Debra Winger

2002

as Self

6.3

Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.

2001

as Himself

9.7

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

as Self

Welcome to Hollywood

as Roger Ebert

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

2000

as Self

6.8

Television: The First Fifty Years

1999

as Self

Junket Whore

as Self

Independent's Day

as Self

Pitch

as Self

Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

1996

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

1995

as Self - Host

6.0

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

1993

as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")

6.0

Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide

1991

as Roger Ebert

Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey

1991

as Narrator (voice) / Introduction

Citizen Yuppie

1987

as Citizen Yuppie

4.0

Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

1985

as Self

An Almost Perfect Affair

1979

as Self

4.5

Television (16)

The Tony Danza Show

as Self

The View

as Self

The Daily Show

as Self

Early Edition

as Roger Ebert

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

8.1

The Critic

1994

as Roger Ebert (voice)

7.3

Late Show with David Letterman

1993

as Self - Guest

6.4

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993

as Self - Guest

7.2

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992

5.4

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988

5.4

The Incredibly Strange Film Show

as Self

At the Movies

At the Movies

Saturday Night Live

as Self (uncredited)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

Sneak Previews

as Himself

7.7

Crew (7)

Movies (7)

The Thinking Molecules of Titan

Short Story

Citizen Yuppie

Director

Citizen Yuppie

Writer

Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens

Screenplay

Up!

Original Story

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

1970

Screenplay

6.1

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

1970

Story

6.1