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...
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Complete Filmography

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
as Self (archive footage)
At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great critical acclaim in London in late 2017. Alan Yent...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
2013
as Self
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — ...

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009
as Self (archive)
In the 1980s we got our MTV but seemed to have lost much of the musical film in the process. But the genre is resilient. A handful of masterpieces alo...

Delgo
2008
as Sedessa (voice)
In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an opposing race to stop a war orchestrated by a power hungry ...

I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mother Nature loves to cause mischief, and she steps in to help two love-starved souls find happiness. She helps an aging professional woman and singl...

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003
as Contessa
An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Con...

In Search of Peace
2001
as Golda Meir (voice)
In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the origins of the Middle East conflict. Combining a ric...

Heartbreakers
2001
as Gloria Vogal
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. ...

Haven
2001
as Mama Gruber
Based on the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to l...

Keeping the Faith
2000
as Ruth Schram
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper W...

Up at the Villa
2000
as Princess San Ferdinando
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British ...

Deep in My Heart
1999
as Gerry Cummins
A black woma is reunited with her white birth mother after being given up for adoption.

Antz
1998
as Queen (voice)
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a pa...

Great Expectations
1998
as Ms. Dinsmoor
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and t...

Critical Care
1997
as Nun
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their com...

G.I. Jane
1997
as Senator Lillian DeHaven
In response to political pressure from Senator Lillian DeHaven, the U.S. Navy begins a program that would allow for the eventual integration of women ...

The Sunchaser
1996
as Dr. Renata Baumbauer
A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the ...

Homecoming
1996
as Abigail Tillerman
When their mother disappears, a group of siblings are forced to fend for themselves, and make their way on their own. They eventually meet their grand...

Dracula: Dead and Loving It
1995
as Madame Ouspenskaya
When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Professor Van Helsing...

Home for the Holidays
1995
as Adele Larson
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, Cl...

How to Make an American Quilt
1995
as Glady Joe Cleary
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits ...

The Mother
1994
as Mrs. Fanning
Paddy Chayefsky's 1954 play set in the Bronx tells the story of a recently widowed 66-year-old woman who seeks a job after 40 years of being a homemak...

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994
as Lucy Marsden (age 99-100)
Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for...

Mr. Jones
1993
as Dr. Catherine Holland
The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his tr...

Malice
1993
as Mrs. Kennsinger
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same af...

Point of No Return
1993
as Amanda
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent...

Love Potion No. 9
1992
as Madame Ruth
Unlucky in love, chemist Paul Matthews visits gypsy Madame Rosa for help. Quickly realizing he is a hopeless nerd, she gifts him with Love Potion No. ...

Honeymoon in Vegas
1992
as Bea Singer
On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. T...
Mrs. Cage
1992
as Mrs. Cage
A proper matron marches into a police station to announce that she has just shot a fellow shopper in a supermarket's parking lot.

Broadway Bound
1992
as Kate Jerome
Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage ends.

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
1989
as Meredith Perlestein
A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.

Torch Song Trilogy
1988
as Ma Beckoff
Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.

84 Charing Cross Road
1987
as Helene Hanff
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order...

'night, Mother
1986
as Thelma Cates
A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

Agnes of God
1985
as Mother Miriam Ruth
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to d...

Garbo Talks
1984
as Estelle Rolfe
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: ...

An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
as Self
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespe...

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
1984
as Jo Armitage (archive footage) (uncredited)
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpt...

To Be or Not to Be
1983
as Anna Bronski
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young...
Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
1982
as Self
Bob Hope takes a look back at the beautiful and funny women he has worked with over the years. More than 60 of Bob's co-stars are here in television a...

The Elephant Man
1980
as Mrs Kendal
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revea...

Fatso
1980
as Antoinette
Dominick DiNapoli is a man who loves food and is overweight as a result. After an obese cousin dies due to health problems, Dominick's sister Antoinet...

Fatso
1980
Writer, Director
Dominick DiNapoli is a man who loves food and is overweight as a result. After an obese cousin dies due to health problems, Dominick's sister Antoinet...

The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
as Self
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movi...

Mickey's 50
1978
as Self
"Mickey's 50" is a 90-minute special that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on November 19, 1978. The special was made to commemorate the 50th bi...

The Turning Point
1977
as Emma
As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an internationa...

Silent Movie
1976
as Self
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the mo...

Lipstick
1976
as Carla Bondi
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But j...

The Hindenburg
1975
as Ursula
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security....

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975
as Edna Edison
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.

Young Winston
1972
as Lady Jennie Churchill
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war corres...

Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man
1970
as Various
A CBS television special, renowned for its legendary "Yma, Ava....Yma, Uta... Yma, Oona" sequence. Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man (1970), won ...

The Graduate
1967
as Mrs. Robinson
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

The Slender Thread
1965
as Inga Dyson
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that...

7 Women
1965
as Dr. D.R. Cartwright
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.

The Pumpkin Eater
1964
as Jo Armitage
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physi...

The Miracle Worker
1962
as Annie Sullivan
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard h...

The Girl in Black Stockings
1957
as Beth Dixon
Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the invest...

The Restless Breed
1957
as Angelita
Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.

Nightfall
1956
as Marie Gardner
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

Walk the Proud Land
1956
as Tianay
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs...

The Last Frontier
1955
as Corinna Marston
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.

The Naked Street
1955
as Rosalie Regalzyk
To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Ros...

A Life in the Balance
1955
as María Ibinia
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.

New York Confidential
1955
as Kathy Lupo
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid...

The Raid
1954
as Katy Bishop
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie ...

Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954
as Paula
The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-kee...

Gorilla at Large
1954
as Laverne Miller
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.

The Kid from Left Field
1953
as Marian Foley
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, C...

Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953
as Marie, Comtesse de St. Malo
A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.

Tonight We Sing
1953
as Emma Hurok
Tonight We Sing is a 1953 musical biopic film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the life and career of the celebrated impresario Sol Hurok. It st...

Don't Bother to Knock
1952
as Lyn Lesley
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

The Man Who Had Influence
1950
as Maria Cassini
Business mogul's son David Grant uses his father's power to extricate himself from problems - until implication in a woman's death tests David's willi...

Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer
N/A
as Herself
With a career spanning nine decades, EGOT winner Mel Brooks is the master of parody and comedy. From Brooklyn, live TV (with Sid Caesar) and Broadway,...