Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942, Urbana, Illinois) is a film critic who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times; his reviews are syndicated to over 200 newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. He is also a long-time co-host of a syndicated television program featuring his film criticism, first for 23 years with Gene Siskel and since Siskel's death, with Richard Roeper on Ebert & Roeper.

Personal life

Ebert received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was editor of The Daily Illini and member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Ebert's interest in journalism began in his teens. As a high school student, he was a sports writer for The News-Gazette in Champaign, Illinois, and in his senior year he was co-editor of his high school newspaper, The Echo.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Phi Delta Theta

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Ebert did graduate study in English at the University of Cape Town under a Rotary International Fellowship. He was a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Chicago when the film critic's position was offered to him at the Sun-Times. For the last three decades he has worked for the University of Chicago as a guest lecturer, teaching a night class on film. His fall 2005 class is on the works of the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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University of Cape Town - Rotary International - University of Chicago

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He married trial attorney Chaz Hammelsmith (sic) on July 18, 1993 and has a step-daughter and two step-grandchildren.

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Chaz Hammelsmith - July 18 - 1993

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In 2002, Ebert suffered a bout with papillary thyroid cancer. He underwent surgery in February 2002 which successfully removed the cancer. He later underwent surgery in 2003 for cancer in his salivary gland. In December 2003, he underwent a four week course of radiation treatment as a followup to the surgery on his salivary gland. He continued to review movies, not missing a single opening while undergoing treatment.

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2002 - Thyroid cancer

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