Ethel Waters
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 31, 1896
- Died
- September 1, 1977
- Birthplace
- Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1 2006
Actor
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003
as Self (archive footage)
Blues Masters 1999
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II 1976
as (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 1975
as Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen 1975
as Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli 1973
as Self (archive footage)
The Sound and the Fury 1959
as Dilsey
The Heart Is a Rebel 1958
as Gladys
- Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower 1956
as Sunday School Teacher
Carib Gold 1956
as Mom
The Member of the Wedding 1952
as Berenice Sadie Brown
Pinky 1949
as Dicey Johnson
The Voice That Thrilled the World 1943
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Stage Door Canteen 1943
as Ethel Waters
Cabin in the Sky 1943
as Petunia Jackson
Cairo 1942
as Cleona Jones
Tales of Manhattan 1942
as Esther
Let My People Live 1939
Actor
Gift of Gab 1934
as Herself
Bubbling Over 1934
as Ethel Peabody
Rufus Jones for President 1933
as Mother of Rufus
On With the Show! 1929
as Ethel
Credits from TMDB.