Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Roger Ebert
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Images
Roger Ebert, 2007. Roger Ebert Roger Ebert
Related Questions
Read Next
Bag end on Bagshot row from the movies Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in Hobbiton, New Zealand, Australia
You Ought to Be in Pictures: 8 Filming Locations You Can Actually Visit
close up of newspapers
Citizen Journalists
Tom Cruise as Maverick in Top Gun(1986) directed by Tony Scott.
Can You Guess the Movie by the Scene?
Discover
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around
Moonrise over Tucson, Arizona
Why Doesn’t Arizona Observe Daylight Saving Time?
Camel at Khor Rori, Oman; mammal.
Do Camels Store Water in Their Humps?
Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.
Holi: Festival of Colors
airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)
7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Roger Ebert: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Roger-Ebert
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Roger Joseph Ebert • Reinhold Timme • R. Hyde
Born June 18, 1942 • Urbana • Illinois
Died April 4, 2013 (aged 70) • Chicago • Illinois
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize (1975)
Notable Works “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie” • “Life Itself: A Memoir” • “The Great Movies”

Photos

Roger Ebert, 2007.
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
See All Images →
E.B. White
American writer
Gene Siskel
American journalist and critic
Nikole Hannah-Jones
American journalist
Herb Caen
American journalist
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson
American author
Samantha Power
Samantha Power
American journalist and government official
Dave Barry
Dave Barry
American humorist and author
David Remnick
David Remnick
American journalist
Garry Wills
American historian, journalist, and author
Seymour Hersh
American journalist
Quindlen, Anna
Anna Quindlen
American writer
A newsman makes news
Dean Baquet
American journalist
Thomas L. Friedman
American journalist
McPhee, John
John McPhee
American journalist
Anne Elizabeth O’Hare McCormick
American journalist
The New Yorker's Idea of the Map of the United States, cartoon by John T. McCutcheon
John T. McCutcheon
American cartoonist
David Halberstam, 2006.
David Halberstam
American journalist and author
Russell Baker
American journalist and humorist
George S. Kaufman
American playwright and journalist
Mauldin, Bill
Bill Mauldin
American cartoonist