# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-roeper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:31:39.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-roeper"
name: "Richard Roeper"
slug: "richard-roeper"
description: "Richard E. Roeper is an American writer. He is a former columnist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, where he wrote for 39 years dating back to 1986 until his departure in 2025. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, serving as the late Gene Siskel's successor. From 2010 to 2014, he co-hosted The Roe and Roeper Show with Roe Conn on WLS-AM. From October 2015 to October 2017, Roeper served as the host of the FOX 32 morning show Good Day Chicago. Since 2021, he has hosted a podcast entitled The Richard Roeper Show for American Eagle. He is a regular contributor to Windy City Weekend and its predecessor Windy City Live on WLS-TV. In 2025, Roeper joined RogerEbert.com as a regular contributor."
tagline: "American writer and film critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Roeper_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           14.261612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 7470
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump