Roger Ebert: 1942-2013 Pictures - CBS News Movie critic Roger Ebert works in his office at the WTTW-TV studios in Chicago on Jan. 12, 2011. Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism, and wielded the nation's most influential thumb on his long-running TV program, died on April 4, 2013, after a long battle with cancer. Credit: AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast