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popular name: Anne Bancroft

date_of_death: June 6, 2005

age: 73

cause_of_death: Uterine cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: 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. Upon her death, she was laid to rest at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

popular name: Louise Emmons

date_of_death: March 6, 1935

age: 77

cause_of_death: Heart disease and pneumonia

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Louise Emmons was an American character actress who specialized in portraying old hags, such as the evil headmistress from the Our Gang film Mush and Milk (1933). Louise appeared in 53 films throughout her career including "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalpyse" (1921), "The Ten Commandments" (1923), "Resurrection" (1931), and "King Kong" (1933). Her last film was the horror movie Mark of the Vampire (1935), where she played an old gypsy.

popular name: Robert Evans

date_of_death: October 26, 2019

age: 89

cause_of_death: Stoke related issues

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Robert Evans (1930–2019) was a charismatic and influential American film producer and studio executive who played a pivotal role in shaping modern Hollywood. Born in New York City, he began his career as a radio actor and model before being discovered by actress Norma Shearer, which led to a brief stint as an actor. His true impact came after he became head of production at Paramount Pictures in 1966, where he transformed the struggling studio into a major force by backing critically acclaimed and commercially successful films such as Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, and Chinatown. Known for his bold instincts and flair for drama both on and off screen, Evans later became an independent producer, working on films like Marathon Man and Urban Cowboy. His personal life was marked by multiple marriages, most famously to actress Ali MacGraw, and a period of drug-related scandals in the 1980s. He chronicled his colorful life in the bestselling memoir The Kid Stays in the Picture, which became a cult-favorite documentary. Remembered as one of the defining figures of the New Hollywood era, he passed away at his home in Beverly Hills, California and was interred in the family crypt at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.