Cast & creator
Roger Ebert
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Daily Show, Late Show with David Letterman
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.
Also known as: Roger Joseph Ebert, Reinhold Timme
56
film credits
17
television credits
66
1962–2026 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (73)
Showing 73 of 73 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
1975
The View
Self
1997
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992The Tony Danza Show
Self
2004
Early Edition
Roger Ebert
1996
The Critic
Roger Ebert (voice)
1994
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
2024
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Film Critic (archive footage)
2025
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Self
1988
Kubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
2020
At the Movies
Self
1986
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Screenplay
1970Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Story
1970
Up!
Original Story
1976
Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Self
2003
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")
1993At the Movies
1982
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
Self - Host
1995
Welcome to Hollywood
Roger Ebert
2000
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
Screenplay
1979
The Outsider
Self
2005
Junket Whore
Self
1998
Cannes: All Access
Self
2007
Howard
Self (archive footage)
2018
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
2009
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
2005Television: The First Fifty Years
Self
1999
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive photo)
2024
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Self
2007
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self
2004
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
2020
Burden
Self (archive footage)
2016
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Self
2004
An Almost Perfect Affair
Self
1979
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
Self (archive footage)
2026
All the Love You Cannes!
Self
2002
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Self
2000
Don't You Forget About Me
Self
2010
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
2007
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
2002
Dead Teenager Movie
Self
2006
Abby Singer
Roger Ebert (uncredited)
2003
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Self
2009
Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover
2004
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
Self
2006
Life Itself
Self - Film Critic
2014
Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
Self
2001
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Self
2001
Independent's Day
Self
1998
Mysteries of Love
Self (archive footage)
2002
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
Self
2004
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Self
2020Sneak Previews
Himself
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Self
2007
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Self
2004
Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
Self
1991
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Narrator (voice) / Introduction
1991
Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams
Self
2008
Pitch
Self
1997
Biography: Humphrey Bogart
Self - Film Critic
2003
The Thinking Molecules of Titan
Short Story
2014
Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage
Self
1985
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
Self
2006
Citizen Yuppie
Citizen Yuppie
1987Citizen Yuppie
Director
1987Citizen Yuppie
Writer
1987