Academy Award winning actress Anne Bancroft has died at the age of 73. A spokesman for Bancroft’s husband, Mel Brooks, said that Bancroft passed away Monday night at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Ms. Bancroft had been suffering from uterine cancer. Bancroft won her Oscar for portraying Anne Sullivan, the teacher of young Helen Keller in the film ‘The Miracle Worker’ in 1962. She also won a Tony Award for portraying Sullivan on the Broadway stage in the play of the same name. Despite her appearance in so many diverse roles over the course of her career, Bancroft remained best remembered for her role as Mrs. Robinson in the landmark film ‘The Graduate’ starring Dustin Hoffman. Simpsons viewers will remember her has Dr. Zweig in the 1994 episode ‘Fear Of Flying’. She was Marge Simpson’s psychiatrist.
