Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. Ebert frequently endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic," and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called him "the best-known film critic in America."

18 June 1942

Born on the same birth date (18 June 1942): Carl Radle • Hans Vonk (conductor) • John Bellany • Nick Tate • Pat Hutchins • Paul McCartney • Richard Perry • Thabo Mbeki

Born on the same birth day (18 June): Alexandra Meissnitzer • Christian Taylor (athlete) • Denis Herron • Eleanor of Woodstock • George Essex Evans • Ivana Wong • Mitsuteru Yokoyama • Nick Tate • Philip B. Crosby • Rod de'Ath • William Lassell

Born in the same month (June 1942): Curtis Mayfield • Hans-Joachim Walde • Jonathan Raban • Michele Lee • Mohamed ElBaradei