Ruth Brown
Acting1928
Biography
No overview available.
Known For
Hairspray
Motormouth Maybelle
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Under the Rainbow
Cleaning Woman
True Identity
Martha
Austin City Limits
Self
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
Ella
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Tortoise / Ant (voice)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)
Acting History
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Singer (segment "Black and Blue") (archive footage)
2000
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TVas Tortoise / Ant (voice)• 1 eps
1999
Austin City Limits
TVas Self• 1 eps
1996
Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested
as Self - Guest star - Vocals
1994
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
as Ella
Rebel Highway
TVas Ella Baldwin• 1 eps
1993
Hallelujah
as Mrs. Sherman
Black and Blue: A Musical Revue
as Singer
1991
True Identity
as Martha
Montreux Jazz Festival 1991
as Self
1990
Blues Alive
as Herself
1988
Hairspray
as Motormouth Maybelle
1981
Under the Rainbow
as Cleaning Woman
1979
Hello, Larry
TVas Leona Wilson• 25 eps
1962
1958
The Dick Clark Show
TVas Self• 1 eps
1955
Rhythm and Blues Revue
as Self