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Anne Bancroft in Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (1970)

Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (1967)

Anne Bancroft in The Slender Thread (1965)

Anne Bancroft and Steven Hill in The Slender Thread (1965)

Anne Bancroft, Steven Hill, and Greg Jarvis in The Slender Thread (1965)

Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft in The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)

Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, and Max Brooks

Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch in The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Mike Nichols in The Graduate (1967)

Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Murray Hamilton in The Graduate (1967)

Anne Bancroft and Marty Feldman in Silent Movie (1976)

Anne Bancroft and Alton Ruff in Silent Movie (1976)

John Hurt and Anne Bancroft in The Elephant Man (1980)

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 Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared in a lot of undistinguished movies such as Gorilla at Large (1954), Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), New York Confidential (1955), Nightfall (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 The Miracle Worker (1962), for which she won an Oscar. Bancroft went on to give acclaimed performances in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Slender Thread (1965), Young Winston (1972), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), The Elephant Man (1980), To Be or Not to Be (1983), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) and other movies, but her most famous role would be as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (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 Love Potion No. 9 (1992), Point of No Return (1993), Home for the Holidays (1995), G.I. Jane (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Keeping the Faith (2000) and Up at the Villa (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 at the age of 73 from uterine cancer. Her death surprised many, as she had not disclosed her illness to the public. Among her survivors was her husband of 41 years, Mel Brooks, and their son Max Brooks, who was born in 1972. Her final film, the animated feature Delgo (2008), was released posthumously in 2008 and dedicated to her memory.

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