Ethel Waters
Acting Born Oct 31, 1896 Chester, Pennsylvania, USA 24 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- Climax! (1954) as Aunt Kate
- Daniel Boone (1964) as Rachael
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- Route 66 (1960)
- The Steve Allen Show (1956) as Self - Singer
- The Great Adventure (1963) as Rit
- The Hollywood Palace (1964) as Self
- Playwrights '56 (1955)
- The Barbara McNair Show (1969) as Self
- Bubbling Over (1934) as Ethel Peabody
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Mother
- The Beulah Show (1950) as Beulah
- Pinky (1949) as Dicey Johnson
- The Pearl Bailey Show (1971) as Self
- That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) as (archive footage)
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) as Self (archive footage)
- Tales of Manhattan (1942) as Esther
- Stage Door Canteen (1943) as Ethel Waters
- The Sound and the Fury (1959) as Dilsey
- Cabin in the Sky (1943) as Petunia Jackson
- Carib Gold (1956) as Mom