Anne Bancroft

For the author, see Ann Bancroft.

Anne Bancroft
Studio publicity photograph, c. 1952
Born	Anna Maria Louisa Italiano (1931-09-17)September 17, 1931 New York City, U.S.
Died	June 6, 2005(2005-06-06) (aged 73) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Kensico Cemetery
Other names	Ann(e) Marno
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1950–2005
Spouses	Martin May ​ ​ (m. 1953;div. 1957)​ Mel Brooks ​ (m. 1964)​
Children	Max Brooks

Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) ^[1] was an American actress. 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. ^{[2] [3]} She is one of only 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.

Associated with the method acting technique, having studied under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Bancroft made her film debut in the noir thriller Don't Bother to Knock in 1952, and then appeared in 14 other films over the following five years. In 1958 Bancroft made her Broadway debut with the play Two for the Seesaw , winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. The following year she portrayed Anne Sullivan in the original Broadway production of The Miracle Worker , winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Following her continued success on stage, Bancroft's film career was revived when she was cast in the acclaimed film adaptation of The Miracle Worker (1962) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her film career further progressed with Oscar nominated performances in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977), and Agnes of God (1985).

Bancroft continued to act in the later half of her life, with prominent roles in The Elephant Man (1980), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Garbo Talks (1984), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Torch Song Trilogy (1988), Home for the Holidays (1995), G.I. Jane (1997), Great Expectations (1998), and Up at the Villa (2000). She received multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including for the television films Broadway Bound (1992), Deep in My Heart (1999), for which she won, and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003). Bancroft died on June 6, 2005, at the age of 73, as a result of uterine cancer. She was married to director, actor, and writer Mel Brooks, with whom she had a son named Max.

Early life

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. ^[4] 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. ^[5] She was of Roman Catholic faith. ^[6]

Bancroft was raised in Little Italy, in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, ^[7] attended P.S. 12, ^[8] later moving to 1580 Zerega Ave. and graduating from Christopher Columbus High School in 1948. She later attended HB Studio, ^[9] the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, ^[8] the Actors Studio and the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women at the University of California, Los Angeles. After appearing in a number of live television dramas, including Studio One ^[8] and The Goldbergs ^[8] under the name Anne Marno, later, at Darryl Zanuck's insistence, ^[8] she chose the less Mediterranean surname of Bancroft "because it sounded dignified". ^[10]

Career

Bancroft made her screen debut with a major role in the 1952 Marilyn Monroe vehicle Don't Bother to Knock . She appeared in 14 films over the next five years, including Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953), Gorilla at Large (1954), Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), New York Confidential (1955) and Walk the Proud Land (1956). In 1957, Bancroft was directed by Jacques Tourneur in a David Goodis adaptation, Nightfall. In 1958, she made her Broadway debut as lovelorn, Bronx-accented Gittel Mosca opposite Henry Fonda (as the married man Gittel loves) in William Gibson's two-character play Two for the Seesaw , directed by Arthur Penn. ^{[10] [11]} For this role, she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. ^[11]

Bancroft (left) with Patty Duke in the stage production of The Miracle Worker , 1960

Bancroft won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1960, again with playwright Gibson and director Penn, when she played Annie Sullivan, the young woman who teaches the child Helen Keller to communicate in The Miracle Worker . ^[12] She appeared in the 1962 film version of the play and won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Actress, with Patty Duke repeating her own success as Keller alongside Bancroft. ^[13] Because Bancroft had returned to Broadway to star in Mother Courage and Her Children , Joan Crawford accepted the Oscar on her behalf and later presented the award to her in New York. ^[14]

Bancroft co-starred as a medieval nun obsessed with a priest (Jason Robards) in the 1965 Broadway production of John Whiting's play The Devils . Produced by Alexander H. Cohen and directed by Michael Cacoyannis, it ran for 63 performances. ^[15]

"Annie's a very gutsy girl. I swear I wouldn't hesitate to put her in at shortstop for the New York Yankees."

Arthur Penn
director of The Miracle Worker ^[16]

Bancroft received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance in The Pumpkin Eater (1964). ^[17]

Bancroft was widely known during this period for her role as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967), for which she received a third Academy Award nomination. ^[18] In the film, she played an unhappily married woman who seduces the son of her husband's business partner, the much younger recent college graduate played by Dustin Hoffman. ^[17] In the movie, Hoffman's character later dates and falls in love with her daughter. ^[18] Bancroft was ambivalent about her appearance in The Graduate; she said in several interviews that the role overshadowed her other work. Despite her character becoming an archetype of the "older woman" role, Bancroft was only eight years older than her onscreen daughter Katharine Ross, and just six years older than Hoffman.

A CBS television special, Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man (1970), won Bancroft an Emmy Award for her singing and acting. ^[19] Bancroft was also a serious candidate to play Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist , but the filmmakers rejected her request to postpone the film’s shoot due to her being pregnant with her son Max.^{[ citation needed ]}

Bancroft in the television show Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre , 1964

Bancroft is one of ten actors to have won both an Academy Award and a Tony Award for the same role (as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker), ^[20] and one of very few entertainers to win an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony award. This rare achievement is also known as the Triple Crown of Acting. She followed that success with a second television special, Annie and the Hoods (1974), which was telecast on ABC and featured her husband Mel Brooks as a guest star. ^[21] She made an uncredited cameo in the film Blazing Saddles (1974), directed by Brooks. She received a fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in The Turning Point (1977), ^[22] and a fifth nomination for Best Actress for her performance in Agnes of God (1985). ^[23]

Bancroft made her debut as a screenwriter and director in Fatso (1980), in which she starred with Dom DeLuise. ^[24]

Bancroft was the original choice to play Joan Crawford in the film Mommie Dearest (1981), but backed out and was replaced by Faye Dunaway. ^{[25] [26]} She was also a front-runner for the role of Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment (1983), but declined so that she could act in the remake of To Be or Not to Be (1983) with Brooks. ^[27] In 1988, she played Harvey Fierstein's mother in the film version of his play Torch Song Trilogy .

During the 1990s and early 2000s, Bancroft took supporting roles in a number of films in which she co-starred with major film stars, including Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Love Potion No. 9 (1992), Malice (1993), Point of No Return (1993), Home for the Holidays (1995), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), G.I. Jane (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Keeping the Faith (2000), Up at the Villa (2000) and Heartbreakers (2001). She also lent her voice to the animated film Antz (1998). ^{[28] [29]}

Bancroft also starred in several television movies and miniseries, receiving six Emmy Award nominations (winning once for herself and shared for Annie, The Women in the Life of a Man), ^{[30] [31]} eight Golden Globe nominations (winning twice) ^[32] and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Bancroft's last appearance was as herself in a 2004 episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm . ^[33] She was cast in Spanglish (2004) later that year, but had to bow out due to a medical emergency. ^[34] Her last project was the animated feature film Delgo , released posthumously in 2008. ^[35] The film was dedicated to her.

Bancroft received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6368 Hollywood Boulevard for her work in television. ^[36] At the time of her star's installation in 1960, ^[37] she had recently appeared in several TV series. Bancroft was also a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1992. ^[38]

Personal life

Bancroft with husband Mel Brooks at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival

Bancroft's first husband was lawyer Martin May, of Lubbock, Texas; they married on July 1, 1953, separated in November 1955 and divorced on February 13, 1957. ^{[1] [39]} She had previously been engaged to actor John Ericson in 1951. ^[40] Lee Marvin's ex-wife Betty claimed in her 2010 book Tales of a Hollywood Housewife that Marvin had an affair with Bancroft when they co-starred in Gorilla at Large (1954) and A Life in the Balance (1955). ^[41]

In 1961, Bancroft met Mel Brooks at a rehearsal for Perry Como's variety show Kraft Music Hall . Bancroft and Brooks married on August 5, 1964, at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau near New York City Hall, and remained married until her death. Their son, Max Brooks, was born in 1972. ^{[42] [43]}

Bancroft worked with her husband three times on the screen: dancing a tango in Brooks's Silent Movie (1976), in his remake of To Be or Not to Be (1983) ^[10] and in the episode entitled "Opening Night" (2004) of the HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm. ^[33] The couple also appeared in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), ^[10] but never appeared together. Brooks produced the film The Elephant Man (1980), in which Bancroft acted. He was executive producer for the film 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) in which she starred. Both Brooks and Bancroft appeared in Season 6 of The Simpsons . According to the DVD commentary, when Bancroft came to record her lines for the episode "Fear of Flying", the Simpsons writers asked if Brooks had come with her (which he had); she joked, "I can't get rid of him!"

In a 2010 interview, Brooks credited Bancroft as being the guiding force behind his involvement in developing The Producers and Young Frankenstein for the musical theater. In the same interview, he said of their first meeting in 1961, "From that day, until her death on June 6, 2005, we were glued together." ^[44]

Bancroft's son, Max Brooks, said in a 2020 interview that she was "a secret, closet scientist". He said that, as a child, she read to him Paul de Kruif's "Microbe Hunters" (1926) as a bedtime story. ^[45]

In 2005, shortly before her death, Bancroft became a grandmother when her daughter-in-law Michelle gave birth to a boy, Henry Michael Brooks. ^[46]

Death

Bancroft died of uterine cancer at age 73 on June 6, 2005, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. ^[47] Her death surprised many, including some of her friends, as the intensely private Bancroft had not disclosed any details of her illness. ^[48] Her body was interred at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, near her parents, Mildred (who died in April 2010, five years after Anne) and Michael Italiano. ^[49] Her final film, Delgo , was dedicated to her memory.

Filmography

Film

Sources: ^{[50] [51]}

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1952	Don't Bother to Knock	Lyn Lesley
1953	Tonight We Sing	Emma Hurok
1953	Treasure of the Golden Condor	Marie, Comtesse de St. Malo
1953	The Kid from Left Field	Marian Foley
1954	Gorilla at Large	Laverne Miller
1954	Demetrius and the Gladiators	Paula
1954	The Raid	Katy Bishop	[ citation needed ]
1955	New York Confidential	Katherine (Kathy) Lupo
1955	A Life in the Balance	María Ibinia
1955	The Naked Street	Rosalie Regalzyk
1955	The Last Frontier	Corinna Marston
1956	Walk the Proud Land	Tianay
1956	Nightfall	Marie Gardner
1957	The Restless Breed	Angelita
1957	The Girl in Black Stockings	Beth Dixon
1962	The Miracle Worker	Anne Sullivan
1964	The Pumpkin Eater	Jo Armitage
1965	The Slender Thread	Inga Dyson
1966	7 Women	Dr. D.R. Cartwright
1967	The Graduate	Mrs. Robinson
1972	Young Winston	Lady Randolph Churchill
1974	Blazing Saddles	Extra in Church Congregation	Uncredited
1975	The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Edna Edison
1975	The Hindenburg	Countess Ursula von Reugen
1975	Urban Living: Funny and Formidable	Herself	Short film
1976	Lipstick	Carla Bondi
1976	Silent Movie	Herself
1976	The August	None	Short film Director, writer, and editor
1977	The Turning Point	Emma Jacklin
1980	Fatso	Antoinette	Also director and writer
1980	The Elephant Man	Madge Kendal
1983	To Be or Not to Be	Anna Bronski
1984	Garbo Talks	Estelle Rolfe
1985	Agnes of God	Mother Miriam Ruth
1986	'night, Mother	Thelma Cates
1987	84 Charing Cross Road	Helene Hanff
1988	Torch Song Trilogy	Ma Beckoff
1989	Bert Rigby, You're a Fool	Meredith Perlestein
1992	Honeymoon in Vegas	Bea Singer
1992	Love Potion No. 9	Madame Ruth
1993	Point of No Return	Amanda
1993	Malice	Mrs. Kennsinger
1993	Mr. Jones	Dr. Catherine Holland
1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Glady Joe Cleary
1995	Home for the Holidays	Adele Larson
1995	Dracula: Dead and Loving It	Madame Ouspenskaya / Gypsy Woman
1996	The Sunchaser	Dr. Renata Baumbauer
1997	G.I. Jane	Sen. Lillian DeHaven
1997	Critical Care	Nun
1998	Great Expectations	Mrs. Dinsmoor
1998	Mark Twain's America in 3D	Narrator	Documentary film
1998	Antz	Queen Ant (voice)
2000	Up at the Villa	Princess San Ferdinando
2000	Keeping the Faith	Ruth Schram
2001	Heartbreakers	Gloria Vogal / Barbara
2001	In Search of Peace	Golda Meir (voice)	Documentary film
2008	Delgo	Empress Sedessa (voice)	Posthumous release

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	Suspense	Unknown	Episode: "Night Break"
1951	The Ford Theatre Hour	Unknown	3 episodes
1950–1951	Studio One in Hollywood	Maria Cassini	3 episodes
1951	The Adventures of Ellery Queen	Unknown	Episode: "The Chinese Mummer Mystery"
1951	Danger	Gangster's Moll / Heidi	Episodes: "The Killer Scarf" and "Murderer's Face"
1951	The Web	Unknown	Episode: "The Customs of the Country"
1951	Lights Out	Helen	Episode: "The Deal"
1951	The Goldbergs	Joyce	Episode: "Mother-in-Law"
1953	Omnibus	Paco's Sister	Episode: "The Capital of the World"
1953	Kraft Television Theatre	Unknown	Episode: "To Live in Peace"
1954–1957	Lux Video Theatre	Various roles	5 episodes
1956–1957	Climax!	Audrey / Elena	Episodes: "Fear Is the Hunter" and "The Mad Bomber"
1957	Playhouse 90	Isobel Waring / Julie Bickford	Episodes: "So Soon to Die" and "Invitation to a Gunfighter"
1957	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Isabelle Rutledge	Episode: "Episode in Darkness"
1957	The Alcoa Hour	Alegre / Giselle	Episodes: "Key Largo" and "Hostages to Fortune"
1958	The Frank Sinatra Show	Carol Welles	Episode: "A Time to Cry"
1960	Person to Person	Herself	Episode: "7.35"
1960	Gala Adlai on Broadway	Herself / Performer	Television film
1962	Password All-Stars	Herself	Episode: "Anne Bancroft vs. Robert Goulet"
1962–1964	What's My Line?	Herself / Mystery Guest	3 episodes
1964	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Faye Benet Garret	Episode: "Out on the Outskirts of Town"
1967	ABC Stage 67	Virginia	Episode: "I'm Getting Married"
1969	The Kraft Music Hall	Herself	Episode: "2.23"
1970	Arthur Penn, 1922–: Themes and Variants	Herself	Television documentary film
1970	This Is Tom Jones	Herself	Episode: "3.1"
1970	Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man	Herself	Television special
1974	Annie and the Hoods	Herself / Host	Television film
1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Mary Magdalene	Miniseries
1978	The Stars Salute Israel at 30	Herself	Television film
1978	Lørdagshjørnet	Herself	Episode: "Mel Brooks"[ citation needed ]
1978	The Wonderful World of Disney	Herself	Episode: "Mickey's 50"
1979	The Muppets Go Hollywood	Herself	Television special; uncredited
1980	Shōgun	Narrator (voice)	Miniseries; US version
1982	Marco Polo	Marco's mother	Miniseries
1982	Bob Hope's Women I Love: Beautiful, But Funny	Herself	Television special
1983	An Audience with Mel Brooks	Herself	Television special
1990	Freddie and Max	Maxine "Max" Chandler	6 episodes
1992	Broadway Bound	Kate Jerome	Television film
1992	Mrs. Cage	Lillian Cage	Television film
1994	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Lucy Marsden (age 99–100)	Television film
1994	Great Performances	Mrs. Fanning	Episode: "Paddy Chayefsky's 'The Mother'"
1994	The Simpsons	Dr. Zweig (voice)	Episode: "Fear of Flying"
1996	Homecoming	Abigail Tillerman	Television film
1998	The Secret World of 'Antz'	Herself	Television documentary film
1998	Living with Cancer: A Message of Hope	Narrator	Television documentary film
1999	Deep in My Heart	Geraldine "Gerry" Eileen Cummins	Television film
1999	AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Dustin Hoffman	Herself	Television special
2000	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Herself	Episode: "5 May 2000"
2000	The Living Edens	Narrator (voice)	Episode: "Anamalai: India's Elephant Mountain"
2001	Exhale with Candice Bergen	Herself	Episode: "16 November 2001"
2001	Haven	Mama Gruber	Television film [52]
2003	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Contessa	Television film
2004	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Herself	Episode: "Opening Night"

Theater

Source: ^[53]

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
1958	Two for the Seesaw	Gittel Mosca	Booth Theatre
1959	The Miracle Worker	Annie Sullivan	Playhouse Theatre
1963	Mother Courage and Her Children	Mother Courage	Martin Beck Theatre
1965	The Devils	Sister Jean of the Angels	Broadway Theatre
1967	The Little Foxes	Regina Giddens	Ethel Barrymore Theatre
1968	A Cry of Players	Anne	Vivian Beaumont Theatre
1977	Golda	Golda Meir	Morosco Theatre
1981	Duet for One	Stephanie Abrahams	Royale Theatre
2002	Occupant	Louise Nevelson	Peter Norton Space	Off-Broadway [54]

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
1958	12th Tony Awards	Best Featured Actress in a Play	Two for the Seesaw	Won
1959	14th Tony Awards	Best Actress in a Play	The Miracle Worker	Won
1963	35th Academy Awards	Best Actress	The Miracle Worker	Won
	16th British Academy Film Awards	Best Foreign Actress		Won
	18th National Board of Review Awards	Best Actress		Won
	10th Silver Shell Awards	Best Actress		Won
	20th Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Nominated
	13th Laurel Awards	Top Female Dramatic Performance		Nominated
1965	37th Academy Awards	Best Actress	The Pumpkin Eater	Nominated
	18th British Academy Film Awards	Best Foreign Actress		Won
	22nd Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Won
	17th Cannes Film Festival Awards	Best Actress		Won
	15th Laurel Awards	Top Female Dramatic Performance		Nominated
1968	40th Academy Awards	Best Actress	The Graduate	Nominated
	25th Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical		Won
	18th Laurel Awards	Top Female Dramatic Performance		Nominated
1969	22nd British Academy Film Awards	Best Actress in a Leading Role		Nominated
1970	22nd Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Variety or Musical Program – Variety and Popular Music	Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man	Won
1973	26th British Academy Film Awards	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Young Winston	Nominated
1976	29th British Academy Film Awards		The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Nominated
1978	50th Academy Awards	Best Actress	The Turning Point	Nominated
	33rd National Board of Review Awards			Won
	35th Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Nominated
	32nd British Academy Film Awards	Best Actress in a Leading Role		Nominated
	32nd Tony Awards	Best Actress in a Play	Golda	Nominated
1980	Taormina Film Festival	Golden Charybdis Award	Fatso	Nominated
1984	41st Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical	To Be or Not to Be	Nominated
1985	42nd Golden Globe Awards		Garbo Talks	Nominated
1986	58th Academy Awards	Best Actress	Agnes of God	Nominated
	43rd Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama		Nominated
1987	44th Golden Globe Awards		'night, Mother	Nominated
1988	41st British Academy Film Awards	Best Actress in a Leading Role	84 Charing Cross Road	Won
1990	10th Golden Raspberry Awards	Worst Supporting Actress	Bert Rigby, You're a Fool	Nominated
1992	44th Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie	Broadway Bound	Nominated
		Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie	Mrs. Cage	Nominated
1994	46th Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or Movie	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Nominated
1996	2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	How to Make an American Quilt	Nominated
1997	3rd Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie	Homecoming	Nominated
1999	51st Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie	Deep in My Heart	Won
2001	53rd Primetime Emmy Awards		Haven	Nominated
2003	55th Primetime Emmy Awards		The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Nominated
2004	10th Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie		Nominated

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• Anne Bancroft at AllMovie
• Anne Bancroft at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection
• Image of Sidney Poitier holding his Oscar alongside Gregory Peck, Annabella and Anne Bancroft backstage at the Academy Awards, Los Angeles, 1964. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.