Ethel Waters
Born: 1896-10-31 in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1977-09-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2003
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Blues Masters as Self (archive footage)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1975
- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
1971
- The Pearl Bailey Show as Self
1969
- The Barbara McNair Show as Self
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1964
- Daniel Boone as Rachael
- The Hollywood Palace as Self
1963
- The Great Adventure as Rit
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960
1959
- The Sound and the Fury as Dilsey
1958
- The Heart is a Rebel as Gladys
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Singer
- Carib Gold as Mom
- Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower as Sunday School Teacher
1955
1954
- Climax! as Aunt Kate
1953
- General Electric Theater as Mother
1952
- The Member of the Wedding as Berenice Sadie Brown
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Beulah Show as Beulah
1949
- Pinky as Dicey Johnson
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1945
1943
- The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
- Stage Door Canteen as Ethel Waters
- Cabin in the Sky as Petunia Jackson
1942
- Cairo as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
- Tales of Manhattan as Esther
1939
1934
- Bubbling Over as Ethel Peabody
- Gift of Gab as Herself
1933
- Rufus Jones for President as Mother of Rufus
1929
- On With the Show! as Ethel