Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 31, 1896
Died
Sep 01, 1977
Place of Birth
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
39 titles
Ethel Waters
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.
Known For
Filmography
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
Blues Masters
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
The Barbara McNair Show
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Daniel Boone
Rachael
The Hollywood Palace
Self
The Great Adventure
Rit
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Route 66
The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
The Heart Is a Rebel
Gladys
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Sunday School Teacher
Carib Gold
Mom
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer
Playwrights '56
Climax!
Aunt Kate
General Electric Theater
Mother
The Member of the Wedding
Berenice Sadie Brown
The Beulah Show
Beulah
What's My Line?
Self
Pinky
Dicey Johnson
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Soundies Festival
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Stage Door Canteen
Ethel Waters
Cabin in the Sky
Petunia Jackson
Cairo
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Tales of Manhattan
Esther
Let My People Live
Gift of Gab
Herself
Bubbling Over
Ethel Peabody
Rufus Jones for President
Mother of Rufus
On With the Show!
Ethel