Roger Joseph Ebert was born on June 18, 1942, in Urbana, Illinois, the only child of Annabel (née Stumm), a bookkeeper, and Walter Harry Ebert, an electrician. He was raised Roman Catholic, attending St. Mary's elementar… See more

Ebert began his career as a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. His first review for the paper began: "Georges Lautner’s Galia opens and closes with arty shots of the ocean, mother of us all, but in between it’… See more