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Roger Ebert

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

PersonDied aged 70humanQ212173

Also known as Roger Joseph Ebert

Born: June 18, 1942
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-04-27
2.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
3.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2017-10-09
4.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2017-10-09
5.Stated in filmportal.deRetrieved 2017-10-09
6.Stated in BnF authorities
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Died: April 4, 2013
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1.“Roger Ebert dead at 70 after battle with cancer|Chicago Sun-Times”suntimes.com/news/metro/17320958-418/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html
2.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-04-27
3.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
4.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2017-10-09
5.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2017-10-09
6.Stated in Ebert, Roger (18 June 1942–04 April 2013)Retrieved 2017-10-09
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Birthplace: Urbana
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-12-11
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Place of death: Chicago
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-12-31
2.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2024-06-27
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Citizenship: United States
Occupation: screenwriter
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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, film critic
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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, journalist
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1.Stated in Muck RackRetrieved 2022-04-03
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Education: University of Cape Town
, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
, University of Chicago
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Employer: University of Chicago

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Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and author. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. Ebert endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Spike Lee, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic", and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called him "the best-known film critic in America".

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RRogerEbert.comAmerican film review website

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Ebertfest1997 · annual film festival in Champaign, Illinois, held in honor of film critic Roger Ebert

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Sex or gender: male
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1.Stated in BnF authoritiesRetrieved 2015-10-10
2.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2024-07-14
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Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Criticism(1975)
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Carl Sandburg Literary Award(2011)
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1.chipublib.org/chicago-public-library-foundation-awards/
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Order of Lincoln(2001)
Pulitzer Prize(1975)
Cause of death: thyroid cancer
Website: rogerebert.com language: English · web feed url: rogerebert.com
Religion or worldview: Catholicism nature of statement: lapsed Catholic
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1.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/how-i-am-a-roman-catholic
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Given name: Roger
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2015-08-14
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Member of political party: Democratic Party
Native language: English
Manner of death: natural causes
Place of burial: Graceland Cemetery
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1.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2024-06-27
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Field of work: film criticism
Start of work period: 1967
Family name: Ebert
Name in native language: Roger Ebert
Social media followers: 658,490(February 9, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 79797834
680,020(February 27, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 79797834
704,043(January 1, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 79797834
Partner in business or sport: Gene Siskel affiliation: Siskel and Ebert
Pseudonym: Reinhold Timme
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1.Stated in University of Chicago Magazine“Everybody's a critic”magazine.uchicago.edu/0402/features/index-ebert.shtmlRetrieved 2026-02-05
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R. Hyde
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1.Stated in University of Chicago Magazine“Everybody's a critic”magazine.uchicago.edu/0402/features/index-ebert.shtmlRetrieved 2026-02-05
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