Ethel Waters
Acting1896Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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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Known For
Acting History
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)
1972
The Dick Cavett Show
TVas Self - Guest• 1 eps
1971
The Pearl Bailey Show
TVas Self
1970
Daniel Boone
TVas Rachael• 1 eps
1969
The Barbara McNair Show
TVas Self
1964
The Hollywood Palace
TVas Self
1963
The Great Adventure
TVas Rit• 1 eps
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TVas Self
1959
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
1958
The Heart is a Rebel
as Gladys
1956
Carib Gold
as Mom
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Sunday School Teacher
The Steve Allen Show
TVas Self - Singer• 1 eps
1955
Climax!
TVas Aunt Kate• 1 eps
1953
General Electric Theater
TVas Mother
1952
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
1951
What's My Line?
TVas Self• 1 eps
1950
The Beulah Show
TVas Beulah
1949
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TVas Self
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
1942
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
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