The Guardian obituary confirms that Roger Ebert died aged seventy after cancer, having written about films for the Chicago Sun-Times for forty-six years, and notes that operations for thyroid cancer cost him the ability to speak while he remained active. Britannica identifies him as Roger Joseph Ebert (1942–2013), the first film critic to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1975, a long-serving Chicago Sun-Times critic, and co-host whose television work with Gene Siskel popularized film criticism for a mass audience. RogerEbert.com preserves his final public note, A Leave of Presence, in which returning cancer made him reduce duties while he still planned to write. Together the sources show the hinge and the worth: cancer took Ebert’s jaw and voice, but the keyboard became his second mouth, keeping criticism humane, accessible, generous, and alive.