Roger Ebert’s Favorite Actor Was This Noir Anti-Hero

Famed movie critic Roger Ebert claimed to have seen 10,000 films and reviewed over 6,000 of them, and with that comes exposure to a lot of actors and actresses across different generations of film.

Picking favorites would be difficult for almost anyone to choose, but this is Roger Ebert, a man confident enough to say that if he had to pick a favorite film, it would be La Dolce Vita.

When asked if he had a favorite actor, he knew right away the person he’d choose: Robert Mitchum.

This is initially surprising, considering that Mitchum was not often praised as the most intricate of actors compared to more obvious names, but Ebert gravitated toward something many other people slept on.

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