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Roger Ebert, the first person to have received the Pulitzer Prize for film criticism (in 1975), was best known for his work opposite the late critic-colleague Gene Siskel on TV's Siskel and Ebert, Sneak Previews and At the Movies. After Siskel's death, Ebert went on to cohost At the Movies with Richard Roeper. A film critic for the "Chicago Sun Times," Ebert is the author of screenplays and some 15 books on cinema, including A Kiss Is Still A Kiss.
Born on June 18, 1942, in Urbana, IL, Ebert studied at the University of Illinois, where he won a national college award for his campus newspaper columns. Currently, he is a film lecturer at the University of Chicago Fine Arts Program.
In 1993, Hollywood Radio and Television Society's selected Ebert and Siskel as their "Men of the Year." Two year's later, Chicago's "Erie Way" was renamed "Siskel and Ebert Way." In honor of their "Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down" style of rating films, Ebert had his right thumb trademarked.
Ebert is married and the father of a step-daughter. Estimating that he has seen over 8,000 films, Ebert considers I Spit on Your Grave (1978) to be the worst film he has ever seen, according to IMDB (Internet Movie Database).
Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, Ebert had several operations, and stopped appearing on At the Movies in 2006.
Last updated: March 13, 2009.
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