Anne Bancroft

Birth Name:

Anna Maria Louisa Italiano

Birth Date:

September 17, 1931

Birth Place:

New York, New York

Death Date:

June 6, 2005

Place of Death:

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York

Age:

Cause of Death:

Uterine cancer

Cemetery Name:

Kensico Cemetery

Claim to Fame:

Show Business

Anne Bancroft was a gifted and talented American actress whose 50+ year career was studded with renowned successes on stage, screen, and television. She won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for best actress for one of her most physically and emotionally demanding roles, that of Helen Keller’s teacher, Annie Sullivan, in The Miracle Worker. However, it was with another Oscar-nominated film role, the seductive Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967), that—to her bewilderment—she was most identified. In addition to her Tony and Oscar awards, Bancroft received three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. Her film career progressed with Oscar nominated performances in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Turning Point (1977) and Agnes of God (1985). Bancroft continued to act in the later half of her life, with prominent roles including The Elephant Man (1980), Garbo Talks (1984), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Torch Song Trilogy (1988), Home for the Holidays (1995), G.I. Jane (1997), Great Expectations (1998), and Up at the Villa (2000). She received multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including for the television films Broadway Bound (1992), Deep in My Heart (1999), for which she won, and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003). She died in 2005, at the age of 73, as a result of uterine cancer. She was married to director, actor, and writer Mel Brooks, with whom she had a son, author Max Brooks. She is one of only 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.

Fun Fact

Both Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft appeared in Season 6 of The Simpsons. When Bancroft came to record her lines for the episode “Fear of Flying”, the Simpsons writers asked if Brooks had come with her (which he had); she joked, “I can’t get rid of him!”

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Kensico Cemetery

273 Lakeview Avenue

Valhalla, New York, 10595

USA

North America

Map:

Map of Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York

Grave Location:

Section 180, Lot 6

Grave Location Description

As you enter the cemetery off Grassland Roads, drive 100 feet and take the first left onto Seneca Avenue. Drive approximately .25 miles and park on the right at the intersection of Seneca and Pocantico Avenue and look for the distictive white marble angel overlooking the final resting place of the talented actress and director Anne Bancroft.