Photos: Famed movie critic Roger Ebert dies
April 4, 2013
Film critic Roger Ebert gives thumbs up as he arrives for the 2004 IFP Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., in a Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004 file photo. Roger Ebert has turned thumbs down on thumbs on "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper."(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file) ( Eberts Thumb Ban )
In this undated photo released by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, movie critics Roger Ebert, right, and Gene Siskel are shown. Starting Thursday, Aug. 2, 2007, a new web site touted as the largest collection of video-based movie reviews online will begin. The site will feature clips from the show that made the thumb famous and include 5,000 movie reviews, spanning more than 20 years of the show hosted by newspaper film critics Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel and columnist Richard Roeper. (AP Photo/Disney-ABC Domestic Television) ( Ebert Web Site )
Movie critic Roger Ebert photographs "The Darwin Awards" director Finn Taylor from the media line before the the screening of the film during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ( SUNDANCE THE DARWIN AWARDS )
In this Jan. 12, 2011 file photo, Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert works in his office at the WTTW-TV studios in Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) ( Obit Roger Ebert )
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper, left, sits with Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert on the set of the newly named "Ebert & Roeper and The Movies" Wednesday, July 12, 2000, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell) ( EBERT SIDEKICK )
Film critic Roger Ebert poses for photographers Thursday, June 23, 2005, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Ebert was honored Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (AP Photo/Ric Francis) ( PEOPLE EBERT )
Film critic Roger Ebert gives a thumbs up as he arrives for the 2004 IFP Independent Spirit Awards on In Santa Monica, Calif., on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) ( SPIRIT AWARDS )
This May 17, 2004 file photo shows Pulitzer Prize winning film critc Roger Ebert at the 57th International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file) ( Obit Roger Ebert )
Film critic Roger Ebert is seen in this July 18, 2005 file photo in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) ( PEOPLE ROGER EBERT )
Film critic Roger Ebert acknowledges applause from supporters while making his first public appearance since undergoing cancer-related surgery last summer, at his annual Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Ill., Wednesday, April 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) ( Ebert Festival )
Film critic Roger Ebert acknowleges the applause of those gathered to pay tribute to him at the historic Chicago Theatre on Monday, July 18, 2005. A sidewalk medallion bearing his name was unveiled under the marquee of the theatre during the celebration. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) ( PEOPLE ROGER EBERT )
Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert speaks for her husband film critic Roger Ebert who was honored at the 17th Annual Gotham Awards at Steiner Studios, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) ( Gotham Awards Show )
Roger Ebert is shown in this, Nov. 27, 2007, file photo in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file) ( People Roger Ebert )
Film Critic and Author Roger Ebert, left, and wife Chaz pose with the Honorary Life Member Award backstage at the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009, in Los Angeles. ( DGA Awards Pressroom )
In this photo taken Wednesday, June 23, 2010, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert is seen in the kitchen of his home in Chicago. Ebert published a cookbook of more than two dozen recipes for the rice cooker called "The Pot and How to Use It." (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) ( Food Roger Ebert Cookbook )
This January, 2011, file photo provided by Roger Ebert shows the famous film critic wearing a silicone prosthesis over his lower face and neck. (AP Photo/Ebert Productions, David Rotter, file) ( Obit Roger Ebert )
Roger Ebert, right, poses with Gene Siskel in Los Angeles in this 1986 photo. The rivalry between the two Chicago film critics who combine their talents on the movie review show "Siskel & Ebert & The Movies" has helped make them media stars. (AP Photo/DOUGLAS C. PIZAC) ( SISKEL EBERT )
Film Critic Roger Ebert receives a special award of recognition at the American Society of Cinematographers 17th Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Century Plaza Hotel on February 16, 2003 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) ( 1797376KW054_asc )
Film critics Richard Roeper (left) and Roger Ebert appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on July 29, 2004 at the NBC Studios, in Burbank, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) ( 51122459KW012_leno )
Movie Critic Roger Ebert and his wife, Chaz Ebert, kiss as he receives the 2,288th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame June 23, 2005 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) ( 53116157FH019_Roger_Ebert_H )
Film critic Roger Ebert speaks at the signing for his new book "Great Movies II" at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on March 7, 2006 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) ( 57017453DL010_ebert )
Film critic Roger Ebert poses at the book signing for his "Great Movies II" at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on March 7, 2006 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) ( 57017453DL019_ebert )
Film critics Gene Siskel, left, and Roger Ebert are shown in a 1994 photo. (AP Photo/Buena Vista Television) ( SISKEL AND EBERT )
The 2,288th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Movie Critic Roger Ebert is shown June 23, 2005 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) ( 53116157FH009_Roger_Ebert_H )
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