Legendary Film Critic Roger Ebert Dies at 70

Just a day after announcing his cancer had returned and he was undergoing radiation treatment, legendary film critic Roger Ebert has died.

FOX News Radio’s Jennifer Keiper reports from Chicago:

Roger Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic who became as famous as many of the stars in the films he reviewed.

(Ebert) “This is the most intelligent and involving movie…”

He started out at the Chicago Sun-Times and joined movie critic Gene Siskel from the Chicago Tribune for a review who, which is where the thumbs-up-or-down rating system was born.  When Siskel died in 1999, Ebert continued the show with Richard Roeper.

In mid-2006, Ebert suffered post-surgical complications from thyroid cancer and was unable to speak, but still gave reviews with the help of voice technology.

(Ebert – Computer-Generated Voice) “And I give it a big thumbs up!”

He was still working up until his death at 70 years old.

Sabrina Sabbagh, FOX News Radio.