After a battle with cancer, world famous film critic Roger Ebert has passed away.

It was reported a earlier this week that Roger Ebert's cancer had come back, and suddenly on Thursday it was reported that he had in fact passed away from the cancer in both the thyroid and salivary gland.

Ebert was a movie reviewer for the Chicago Sun Times for 46 years, and was on TV for 31 years. He also had a number of books and to his credit as well. he was 70-years-old.

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