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Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

Alias:
Reinhold Timme
Roger Joseph Ebert

Birthplace:
Urbana, Illinois, USA

Born:
June 18, 1942

Died:
April 4, 2013

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
1987  Citizen Yuppie

Original Story:
1976  Up!
1987  Citizen Yuppie

Screenplay:
1970  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1976  Up!
1979  Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1987  Citizen Yuppie

Short Story:
1970  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1976  Up!
1979  Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1987  Citizen Yuppie
2014  The Thinking Molecules of Titan

Story:
1970  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1976  Up!
1979  Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1987  Citizen Yuppie
2014  The Thinking Molecules of Titan

Writer:
1970  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1976  Up!
1979  Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
1987  Citizen Yuppie
2014  The Thinking Molecules of Titan

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TV Performances

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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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