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Anne Bancroft

Born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, Anne Bancroft was a versatile actress who won an Academy Award for portraying Helen Keller's teacher in The Miracle Worker, but is remembered by most as Mrs. Robinson, the sultry suburban housewife who seduced Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate


Aliases
  • Anne Marno
English

Antz

1998
as Queen (voice)

The Graduate

1967
as Mrs. Robinson

The Elephant Man

1980
as Mrs. Kendal

G.I. Jane

1997
as Senator Lillian DeHaven

Becoming Mike Nichols

2016
as Anne Bancroft

The Miracle Worker

1962
as Annie Sullivan

7 Women

1966
as Dr. D.R. Cartwright

Garbo Talks

1984
as Estelle Rolfe

America at the Movies

1976
as Annie Sullivan

Young Winston

1972
as Lady Jennie Churchill

84 Charing Cross Road

1987
as Helene Hanff

Torch Song Trilogy

1988
as Ma Beckoff

'night, Mother

1986
as Thelma Cates

Deep in My Heart

1999
as Geraldine 'Gerry' Eileen Cummings

Home for the Holidays

1995
as Adele Larson

Love Potion No. 9

1992
as Madame Ruth

Blazing Saddles

1974
as Churchgoer

The Hindenburg

1975
as Ursula

Heartbreakers

2001
as Gloria Vogal

Fatso

1980
as Antoinette

Broadway Bound

1992
as Kate Jerome

Mrs. Cage

1992
as Mrs. Cage

Agnes of God

1985
as Mother Miriam Ruth

The Naked Street

1955
as Rosalie Regalzyk

Great Expectations

1998
as Ms. Nora Dinsmoor

Nightfall

1957
as Marie Gardner

The Raid

1954
as Katy Bishop

Up at the Villa

2000
as Princess San Ferdinando

The Turning Point

1977
as Emma Jacklin

Treasure of the Golden Condor

1953
as Marie, Comtesse de St. Malo

Malice

1993
as Mrs. Kennsinger

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

1994
as Lucy Marsden (age 99-100)

The Man Who Had Influence

1950
as Maria Cassini (as Anne Marno)

Don't Bother to Knock

1952
as Lyn Lesley

The Sunchaser

1996
as Dr. Renata Baumbauer

Gorilla at Large

1954
as Laverne Miller

Silent Movie

1976
as Herself

Keeping the Faith

2000
as Ruth Schram

Delgo

2008
as Sedessa (voice)

The Kid from Left Field

1953
as Marian Foley

Mr. Jones

1993
as Dr. Catherine Holland

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

2018
as Mrs. Robinson (archive footage)

The Restless Breed

1957
as Angelita

A Life in the Balance

1955
as María Ibinia

New York Confidential

1955
as Kathy Lupo

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

1989
as Meredith Perlestein

Waking Ned Devine

1999
as Villager of Tullymore

Honeymoon in Vegas

1992
as Bea Singer

To Be or Not to Be

1983
as Anna Bronski

The Pumpkin Eater

1964
as Jo Armitage

The Last Frontier

1955
as Corinna Marston

The Slender Thread

1965
as Inga Dyson

Mickey's 50

1978
as Anne Bancroft

Lipstick

1976
as Carla Bondi

How to Make an American Quilt

1995
as Glady Joe Cleary

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

1995
as Madame Ouspenskaya

Jesus of Nazareth

1977
as Mary Magdalene

Homecoming

1996
as Abigail Tillerman

Director

Movie Fatso 1980

Writer

Movie Fatso 1980