Roger Ebert

Career Overview

Roger Ebert has 63 screen credits in a career dating back to 1962. Signature works include Junket Whore, Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide, Life Itself. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

63

Birth Date

1942-06-18

Birth Place

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Known For

• 

  Junket Whore
• 

  Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide
• 

  Life Itself
• 

  Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.
• 

  Citizen Yuppie
• 

  For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

Frequent Collaborators

• Sylvester Stallone (2 collaborations)
• Gene Siskel (2 collaborations)
• A. O. Scott (2 collaborations)
• Pauline Kael (2 collaborations)
• Lauren Hutton (1 collaborations)
• Hugh Grant (1 collaborations)
• Downtown Julie Brown (1 collaborations)
• Jack Nicholson (1 collaborations)
• Jim Carrey (1 collaborations)
• Martin Short (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (59 credits)

  • Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • John Candy: I Like Me

    Self - Film Critic (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Remembering Gene Wilder

    Self (archive photo)

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Kubrick by Kubrick

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

    (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Howard

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Burden

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Life Itself

    Self - Film Critic

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Don't You Forget About Me

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Dark City: The Architecture of Dreams

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Cannes: All Access

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Dead Teenager Movie

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • The Outsider

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

    Roger Ebert (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Sesame Street: A Celebration of Me, Grover

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • The Tony Danza Show

    - Cynthia Nixon, Roger Ebert, Drew Lachey (2006) ... Self actor actors

    - Rick Bayless, Chris Botti, Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper (2005) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 109 (2005) ... Self actor actors
    2004
  • Abby Singer

    Roger Ebert (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Biography: Humphrey Bogart

    Self - Film Critic

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Searching for Debra Winger

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • All the Love You Cannes!

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Mysteries of Love

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Princess Mononoke in the U.S.A.

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Welcome to Hollywood

    Roger Ebert

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Television: The First Fifty Years

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Junket Whore

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Independent's Day

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Pitch

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • The View

    - March 8, 2002 (2002) ... Self actor actors
    1997
  • Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • The Daily Show

    - Roger Ebert (2006) ... Self actor actors
    1996
  • Early Edition

    - The Cat (1997) ... Roger Ebert actor actors
    1996
  • You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'

    Self - Host

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • The Critic

    - Siskel & Ebert & Jay & Alice (1995) ... Roger Ebert (voice) actor actors
    1994
  • Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration

    Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    - Hilary Swank, Roger Ebert, Lee Ann Womack (2005) ... Self - Guest actor actors
    1993
  • Late Show with David Letterman

    - Drew Barrymore, Siskel & Ebert (1998) ... Self - Guest actor actors

    - Siskel & Ebert, Daryl Hall, Muggsy Bogues (1994) ... Self - Guest actor actors
    1993
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    - Ebert & Roeper, Matthew McConaughey, Train (2006) ... actor actors

    - Show #2514 (2003) ... actor actors

    - Show #2293 (2002) ... actor actors
    1992
  • Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey

    Narrator (voice) / Introduction

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Siskel & Ebert 1991 Holiday Video Gift Guide

    Roger Ebert

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    - Season 6, Episode 183 (1992) ... actor actors
    1988
  • Citizen Yuppie

    Citizen Yuppie

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Reflecting Thought: Stan Brakhage

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • An Almost Perfect Affair

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Saturday Night Live

    - Brandon Tartikoff/John Cougar (1983) ... Self (uncredited) actor actors

    - Chevy Chase/Queen (1982) ... Self (uncredited) actor actors
    1975
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    - Episode 10 (1992) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 157 (1987) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 92 (1987) ... Self actor actors
    1962

• writing (3 credits)

  • The Thinking Molecules of Titan

    short story

    writing
    2014
  • Citizen Yuppie

    writer

    writing
    1987
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

    screenplay

    writing
    1970

• directing (1 credits)

  • Citizen Yuppie

    director

    directing
    1987