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Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters

Actor · Born 1896-10-31 · Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Pinky (1949) — Dicey Johnson
  2. Cabin in the Sky (1943) — Petunia Jackson
  3. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) — (archive footage)
  4. Tales of Manhattan (1942) — Esther
  5. Daniel Boone (1964) — Rachael
  6. What's My Line? (1950) — Self
  7. The Member of the Wedding (1952) — Berenice Sadie Brown
  8. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  9. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
  10. Route 66 (1960)
  11. Stage Door Canteen (1943) — Ethel Waters
  12. The Sound and the Fury (1959) — Dilsey
  13. Climax! (1954) — Aunt Kate
  14. The Mike Douglas Show (1961) — Self
  15. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) — Self (archive footage)
  16. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) — Self (archive footage)
  17. Cairo (1942) — Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
  18. General Electric Theater (1953) — Mother
  19. The Steve Allen Show (1956) — Self - Singer
  20. On With the Show! (1929) — Ethel
  21. The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943) — Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
  22. The Hollywood Palace (1964) — Self
  23. Bubbling Over (1934) — Ethel Peabody
  24. Rufus Jones for President (1933) — Mother of Rufus
  25. Gift of Gab (1934) — Herself
  26. Playwrights '56 (1955)
  27. The Beulah Show (1950) — Beulah
  28. Blues Masters (1999) — Self (archive footage)
  29. Carib Gold (1956) — Mom
  30. The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973) — Self (archive footage)
  31. Let My People Live (1939)
  32. The Heart Is a Rebel (1958) — Gladys
  33. Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956) — Sunday School Teacher
  34. The Great Adventure (1963) — Rit
  35. The Pearl Bailey Show (1971) — Self
  36. Soundies Festival (1945)
  37. Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1 (2006)
  38. Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975) — Self (archive footage)
  39. The Barbara McNair Show (1969) — Self