Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft

1931-09-17 Bronx, New York, USA 76 Credits

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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Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.4
Acting

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...

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

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

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

2013

as Self

8.2
Acting

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

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

2009

as Self (archive)

Acting

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

Delgo

2008

as Sedessa (voice)

4.5
Acting

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

I Could Never Be Your Woman

2007

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

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

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

2003

as Contessa

6.3
Acting

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

In Search of Peace

2001

as Golda Meir (voice)

6.5
Acting

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

Heartbreakers

2001

as Gloria Vogal

6.1
Acting

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

Haven

2001

as Mama Gruber

6.8
Acting

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

Keeping the Faith

2000

as Ruth Schram

6.1
Acting

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

Up at the Villa

2000

as Princess San Ferdinando

5.3
Acting

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

Deep in My Heart

1999

as Gerry Cummins

6.0
Acting

A black woma is reunited with her white birth mother after being given up for adoption.

Antz

Antz

1998

as Queen (voice)

6.2
Acting

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

Great Expectations

1998

as Ms. Dinsmoor

6.6
Acting

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

Critical Care

1997

as Nun

6.4
Acting

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

G.I. Jane

1997

as Senator Lillian DeHaven

6.5
Acting

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

The Sunchaser

1996

as Dr. Renata Baumbauer

6.2
Acting

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

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

1996

as Self (archive footage)

6.4
Acting

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

Homecoming

1996

as Abigail Tillerman

7.2
Acting

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

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

1995

as Madame Ouspenskaya

6.1
Acting

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

Home for the Holidays

1995

as Adele Larson

6.3
Acting

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

How to Make an American Quilt

1995

as Glady Joe Cleary

6.4
Acting

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

The Mother

1994

as Mrs. Fanning

Acting

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

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

1994

as Lucy Marsden (age 99-100)

5.4
Acting

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

Mr. Jones

1993

as Dr. Catherine Holland

5.8
Acting

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

Malice

1993

as Mrs. Kennsinger

6.3
Acting

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

Point of No Return

1993

as Amanda

6.2
Acting

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

Love Potion No. 9

1992

as Madame Ruth

6.2
Acting

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

Honeymoon in Vegas

1992

as Bea Singer

5.7
Acting

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

6.0
Acting

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

Broadway Bound

1992

as Kate Jerome

6.3
Acting

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

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

1989

as Meredith Perlestein

4.8
Acting

A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.

Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy

1988

as Ma Beckoff

7.4
Acting

Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.

84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road

1987

as Helene Hanff

7.1
Acting

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

'night, Mother

1986

as Thelma Cates

7.4
Acting

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

Agnes of God

1985

as Mother Miriam Ruth

6.2
Acting

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

Garbo Talks

1984

as Estelle Rolfe

6.2
Acting

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

An Audience with Mel Brooks

1984

as Self

6.5
Acting

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

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

1984

as Jo Armitage (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting

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

To Be or Not to Be

1983

as Anna Bronski

6.7
Acting

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

Acting

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

The Elephant Man

1980

as Mrs Kendal

8.1
Acting

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

Fatso

1980

as Antoinette

5.7
Acting

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

Fatso

1980

Writer, Director

5.7
Writing Directing

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

The Muppets Go Hollywood

1979

as Self

6.3
Acting

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

Mickey's 50

1978

as Self

Acting

"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

The Turning Point

1977

as Emma

6.6
Acting

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

Silent Movie

1976

as Self

6.5
Acting

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

Lipstick

1976

as Carla Bondi

5.2
Acting

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

The Hindenburg

1975

as Ursula

6.3
Acting

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

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

1975

as Edna Edison

6.7
Acting

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

Young Winston

1972

as Lady Jennie Churchill

6.2
Acting

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

Annie: the Women in the Life of a Man

1970

as Various

Acting

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

The Graduate

1967

as Mrs. Robinson

7.6
Acting

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

The Slender Thread

The Slender Thread

1965

as Inga Dyson

7.1
Acting

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

7 Women

1965

as Dr. D.R. Cartwright

6.5
Acting

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

The Pumpkin Eater

1964

as Jo Armitage

6.7
Acting

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

The Miracle Worker

1962

as Annie Sullivan

7.9
Acting

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

The Girl in Black Stockings

1957

as Beth Dixon

6.1
Acting

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

The Restless Breed

1957

as Angelita

5.3
Acting

Texas-border gunrunners kill a federal agent, whose son comes looking for revenge.

Nightfall

Nightfall

1956

as Marie Gardner

6.9
Acting

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

Walk the Proud Land

1956

as Tianay

6.1
Acting

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

The Last Frontier

1955

as Corinna Marston

6.1
Acting

Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.

The Naked Street

The Naked Street

1955

as Rosalie Regalzyk

6.1
Acting

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

A Life in the Balance

1955

as María Ibinia

5.9
Acting

A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.

New York Confidential

New York Confidential

1955

as Kathy Lupo

5.8
Acting

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

The Raid

1954

as Katy Bishop

6.5
Acting

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

Demetrius and the Gladiators

1954

as Paula

6.5
Acting

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

Gorilla at Large

1954

as Laverne Miller

5.6
Acting

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

The Kid from Left Field

1953

as Marian Foley

7.2
Acting

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

Treasure of the Golden Condor

1953

as Marie, Comtesse de St. Malo

6.2
Acting

A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.

Tonight We Sing

Tonight We Sing

1953

as Emma Hurok

10.0
Acting

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

Don't Bother to Knock

1952

as Lyn Lesley

6.6
Acting

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

The Man Who Had Influence

1950

as Maria Cassini

8.0
Acting

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

Mel Brooks: The Genius Entertainer

N/A

as Herself

9.0
Acting

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,...