Roger Ebert, the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, has passed away after several battles with cancer. Just Tuesday, Ebert wrote on his blog that he was pulling back and taking a “leave of presence” after a fall revealed that he had an occurrence of the disease in his leg.
Ebert was a longtime critic for the Chicago Sun Times, and in 1975 he teamed with the late Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune on the first television series focused exclusively on film reviews, At The Movies. In addition, Ebert collaborated with producer Russ Meyer, co-writing Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, and Up!
A passionate, articulated voice of film criticism, Roger Ebert will be missed.
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