- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 31, 1896
- Place of Birth
- Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- September 1, 1977
Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her best-known recordings includes, "Dinah", "Birmingham Bertha", "Stormy Weather" "Hottentot Potentate", and "Cabin in the Sky", as well as her version of the spiritual, "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
movieJazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
movieBroadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Self (archive footage)
movieBlues Masters
1999 · Self (archive footage)
movieThat's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
movieBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
movieBlack Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973 · Self (archive footage)
The Pearl Bailey Show
tvThe Pearl Bailey Show
1971 · Self
The Barbara McNair Show
tvThe Barbara McNair Show
1969 · Self
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
tvDaniel Boone
1964 · Rachael
tvThe Hollywood Palace
1964 · Self
tvThe Great Adventure
1963 · Rit
tvThe Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
tvRoute 66
1960
movieThe Sound and the Fury
1959 · Dilsey
movieThe Heart Is a Rebel
1958 · Gladys
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
movieSaturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956 · Sunday School Teacher
movieCarib Gold
1956 · Mom
tvThe Steve Allen Show
1956 · Self - Singer
Playwrights '56
tvPlaywrights '56
1955
tvClimax!
1954 · Aunt Kate
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · Mother
movieThe Member of the Wedding
1952 · Berenice Sadie Brown
The Beulah Show
tvThe Beulah Show
1950 · Beulah
tvWhat's My Line?
1950 · Self
moviePinky
1949 · Dicey Johnson
tvThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
Soundies Festival
movieSoundies Festival
1945
movieThe Voice That Thrilled the World
1943 · Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
movieStage Door Canteen
1943 · Ethel Waters
movieCabin in the Sky
1943 · Petunia Jackson
movieCairo
1942 · Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
movieTales of Manhattan
1942 · Esther
movieLet My People Live
1939
movieGift of Gab
1934 · Herself
movieBubbling Over
1934 · Ethel Peabody
movieRufus Jones for President
1933 · Mother of Rufus
movieOn With the Show!
1929 · Ethel