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