Roger Ebert (1942–2013)
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Roger Joseph Ebert was born on June 18, 1942 in Urbana, Illinois, and died on April 4, 2013. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was editor of the Daily Illini. He is best known for his film review column in the Chicago Sun Times since vis mere 1967 and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies. After Gene Siskel's death in 1999, Roger Ebert teamed up with Ruchard Roeper for the television series Ebert and Roeper and The Movies which began airing in 2000. Ebert's movie reviews were in more than 200 newspapers in the U.S. and worldwide by Universal Press Syndicate. He wrote more than 15 books, including his annual movie yearbook which was a collection of his reviews for that specific year. He became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. In June 2005, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; he was the first professional critic to receive this award. He received honorary degrees from the University of Colorado, the AFI Conservatory, and the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Ebert died on April 4, 2013 at age 70. He had lost his voice and much of his jaw after battling thyroid and salivary gland cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Serier
Værker af Roger Ebert
Ebert's Little Movie Glossary: A Compendium of Movie Cliches, Stereotypes, Obligatory Scenes, Hackneyed Formulas,… (1994) 67 eksemplarer
The Little Book of Hollywood Cliches: Compendium of Movie Cliches, Stereotypes, Obligatory Scenes, Hackneyed Formulas,… (1995) 14 eksemplarer
25 Great French Films: Ebert's Essentials: 25 Movies to See Before You Go to France (2012) 9 eksemplarer
An 'Illini' Century: One Hundred Years of Campus Life 6 eksemplarer
Images at the Horizon: A Workshop With Werner Herzog Conducted by Roger Ebert at the Facets Multimedia Center, Chicago,… (1980) 4 eksemplarer
PELÍCULAS QUE NUNCA DEBERÍAS VER. Pero después de leer este libro tal vez lo hagas... (2011) 4 eksemplarer
Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews, 1967-2007 1 eksemplar
Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion: Full-Length Reviews of Movies on Video by Roger Ebert (1990-10-02) 1 eksemplar
Roger Ebert's Four-Star Movie Guide 1 eksemplar
Ebert Tarnation 1 eksemplar
Roger Ebert's Pocket Video Guide 1 eksemplar
Roger Ebert's movie yearbook 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [1964 film] (1964) — Introduction (scrapbook), nogle udgaver — 645 eksemplarer
42 Up: "Give Me the Child Until He Is Seven and I Will Show You the Man" (1999) — Forord — 37 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Ebert, Roger Joseph
- Fødselsdato
- 1942-06-18
- Dødsdag
- 2013-04-04
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Urbana, Illinois, USA
- Dødssted
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Bopæl
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Capetown
University of Chicago - Erhverv
- film critic
screenwriter - Organisationer
- Chicago Sun-Times
Cliff Dwellers - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Pulitzer Prize (Criticism, 1975)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2011)
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We Lost Roger Ebert i Library of America Subscribers (april 2013)
Roger Ebert, 1942-2013 i Science Fiction Fans (april 2013)
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- Værker
- 80
- Also by
- 12
- Medlemmer
- 4,588
- Popularitet
- #5,482
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 67
- ISBN
- 134
- Sprog
- 4
- Udvalgt
- 18