Anne Bancroft
17 September, 1931
| 1.73 m
Actress
Director
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Biography
Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Proszę nie pukać (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared in a lot of undistinguished movies such as Goryl atakuje (1954), Demetriusz i gladiatorzy (1954), New York Confidential (1955), O zmierzchu (1956) and The Girl in Black Stockings (1957). By 1957 she grew dissatisfied with the scripts she was getting, left the film business and spent the next five years doing plays on Broadway. She returned to screens in 1962 with her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in Cudotwórczyni (1962), for which she won an Oscar. Bancroft went on to give acclaimed performances in Zjadacz dyń (1964), Wątła nić (1965), Młodość Winstona (1972), Więzień Drugiej Alei (1975), Człowiek słoń (1980), Być albo nie być (1983), Charing Cross 84 (1987) and other movies, but her most famous role would be as Mrs. Robinson in Absolwent (1967). Her status as the "older woman" in the film is iconic, although in real life she was only eight years older than Katharine Ross and just six years older than Dustin Hoffman. Bancroft would later express her frustration over the fact that the film overshadowed her other work. Selective for much of her intermittent career, she appeared onscreen more frequently in the '90s and early '00s, playing a range of characters in such films as Eliksir miłości (1992), Kryptonim Nina (1993), Wakacje w domu (1995), G.I. Jane (1997), Wielkie nadzieje (1998), Zakazany owoc (2000) and Ostatnie lato (2000). She also started to make some TV films, including Deep in My Heart (1999) for which she won an Emmy. Sadly, on June 6, 2005, Bancroft passed away... show more
Movies
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
Lt. Jordan, a US Navy topographic analyst, joins the US Navy Special Warfare Group and struggles to prove her worth in a unit dominated by men. But a cynical woman Texan senator has sold her out.
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her family.
Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt.
At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
Based on the true story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books, which later developed into a close, long-distance friendship that evolved over the course of two decades.
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous.
Norman Jewison's adaptation of John Pielmeier's stage play. When naive novice nun Agnes is discovered with a dead newborn baby in her convent quarters, court-appointed psychiatrist Dr. Martha Livingston investigates her case.
Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
After being arrested during a manic episode, a man who suffers from bipolar disorder is treated by a psychiatrist who begins to develop romantic feelings towards him.
A chronicle of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.
A prestigious oncologist learns a valuable lesson in humility and is forced to reexamine his relationship with medicine and his life in general when Brandon, a young patient and convicted for murder, kidnaps him at gunpoint.
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.