Anne Bancroft
Date of birth: 1931-09-17
Place of birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: アン・バンクロフト, Anna Maria Louisa Italiano
Biography
Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She is one of only 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa (or Luisa) Italiano on September 17, 1931, in the Bronx, New York City, the middle of three daughters of Mildred (née Di Napoli), a telephone operator, and Michael G. Italiano, a dress pattern maker. Both of her parents' surnames were toponymic. Her parents were Italian immigrants from Southern Italy. In an interview, she stated that her family was originally from Muro Lucano, in the province of Potenza. She was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. Bancroft was raised in Little Italy, in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, attended P.S. 12, later moving to 1580 Zerega Ave. Bancroft's Broadway debut in the two-character drama Two for the Seesaw (1958), brought her wide recognition for the depth of her talent and garnered her a Tony Award for best supporting actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (1962), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967). Bancroft continued to have a successful career in film and television. She starred in a number of other films, including The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), and Agnes of God (1985), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She also had a recurring role on the television series Modern Family. Bancroft was married to director Mel Brooks from 1964 until her death in 2005. They had one son, Max Brooks.
Movie Credits
The Miracle Worker
1962-05-23
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w
Malice
1993-09-29
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's
The Elephant Man
1980-10-09
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show
Point of No Return
1993-03-19
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the executio
Heartbreakers
2001-03-23
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. M
G.I. Jane
1997-08-19
In response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that
Silent Movie
1976-06-17
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an id
The Last Frontier
1955-12-07
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.
Keeping the Faith
2000-04-14
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular
Delgo
2008-12-12
In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an opposing
The Mother
1994-11-19
Paddy Chayefsky's 1954 play set in the Bronx tells the story of a recently widowed 66-year-old woman
To Be or Not to Be
1983-12-16
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World Wa
James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1984-01-01
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents inte
Don't Bother to Knock
1952-07-18
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stab
Agnes of God
1985-09-13
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice
How to Make an American Quilt
1995-10-06
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheatin
Torch Song Trilogy
1988-12-14
Arnold Beckoff is looking for love and acceptance, but as a gay man working as a female impersonator
Antz
1998-10-02
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches
Great Expectations
1998-01-30
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a you
Love Potion No. 9
1992-11-13
Unlucky in love, chemist Paul Matthews visits gypsy Madame Rosa for help. Quickly realizing he is a
Home for the Holidays
1995-11-02
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter
Honeymoon in Vegas
1992-08-28
On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psycholog
Nightfall
1956-11-09
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery
'night, Mother
1986-09-12
A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself b
New York Confidential
1955-02-15
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who dec
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954-06-16
The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellu
The Graduate
1967-12-21
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
The Turning Point
1977-11-14
As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and m
Critical Care
1997-10-31
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-s
The Girl in Black Stockings
1957-09-24
Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Lo
84 Charing Cross Road
1987-02-13
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat
The Sunchaser
1996-05-29
A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing l
Fatso
1980-02-01
Dominick DiNapoli is a man who loves food and is overweight as a result. After an obese cousin dies
Young Winston
1972-07-20
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, inclu
The Hindenburg
1975-12-25
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the
Up at the Villa
2000-04-14
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of de
7 Women
1965-12-11
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord c
The Slender Thread
1965-12-15
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alon
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975-03-14
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middl
The Pumpkin Eater
1964-07-16
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful b
Gorilla at Large
1954-05-01
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in
The Raid
1954-08-04
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the smal
Lipstick
1976-04-02
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-sham
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996-05-19
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother,
A Life in the Balance
1955-07-01
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
Deep in My Heart
1999-02-14
A black woma is reunited with her white birth mother after being given up for adoption.
The Naked Street
1955-08-01
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimid
Garbo Talks
1984-10-12
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His
The Kid from Left Field
1953-07-01
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But h
Homecoming
1996-04-14
When their mother disappears, a group of siblings are forced to fend for themselves, and make their
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
1989-02-24
A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.
The Restless Breed
1957-05-01
Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003-05-04
An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday.
Broadway Bound
1992-03-22
Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage
Walk the Proud Land
1956-09-01
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apache based on respect for autonomy rather than
Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953-02-04
A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994-05-01
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Col
Mrs. Cage
1992-05-20
A proper matron marches into a police station to announce that she has just shot a fellow shopper in
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013-05-20
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live tel
Mr. Jones
1993-10-08
The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr. Jones, and the female doctor wh
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
1995-12-22
When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his s
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018-02-17
At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great
Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
With a career spanning nine decades, EGOT winner Mel Brooks is the master of parody and comedy. From
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984-02-04
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft,
Tonight We Sing
1953-01-26
The life story of legendary impresario Sol Hurok. A lover of the arts, young immigrant Hurok despair
Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man
1970-02-18
A CBS television special, renowned for its legendary "Yma, Ava....Yma, Uta... Yma, Oona" sequence.
Mickey's 50
1978-11-19
"Mickey's 50" is a 90-minute special that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on November 19, 197
The Man Who Had Influence
1950-05-29
Business mogul's son David Grant uses his father's power to extricate himself from problems - until
Haven
2001-02-11
Based on the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewis
In Search of Peace
2001-09-21
In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the or
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979-05-16
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere o
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009-08-11
In the 1980s we got our MTV but seemed to have lost much of the musical film in the process. But the
Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
1982-02-28
Bob Hope takes a look back at the beautiful and funny women he has worked with over the years. More
So Soon to Die
1957-01-17
An unemployed actor, Lionel Amblin, is hired to kill a young girl before she reaches her 25th birthd
Invitation to a Gunfighter
1957-03-07
A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018-03-01
Deep rooted religious beliefs seemingly going back to the Pilgrim Fathers' puritanism dominate a soc
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003-07-19
Documentary looking at how nudity has been used in the movies, sometimes shrewdly and other times wi
Mark Twain's America in 3D
1998-07-02
Mark Twain's America interweaves the life and times of Mark Twain with the lives of current day enth