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

The Mike Douglas Show

Daniel Boone

Climax!

What's My Line?

The Dick Cavett Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

Route 66

The Steve Allen Show

All Movies (24)

• Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.12006
• Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• Blues Masters1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• That's Entertainment, Part II1976 · as (archive footage)
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?1975 · as Self (archive footage)
• Black Shadows on a Silver Screen1975 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli1973 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Sound and the Fury1959 · as Dilsey
• The Heart Is a Rebel1958 · as Gladys
• Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower1956 · as Sunday School Teacher
• Carib Gold1956 · as Mom
• The Member of the Wedding1952 · as Berenice Sadie Brown
• Pinky1949 · as Dicey Johnson
• Soundies Festival1945
• The Voice That Thrilled the World1943 · as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
• Stage Door Canteen1943 · as Ethel Waters
• Cabin in the Sky1943 · as Petunia Jackson
• Cairo1942 · as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
• Tales of Manhattan1942 · as Esther
• Let My People Live1939
• Gift of Gab1934 · as Herself
• Bubbling Over1934 · as Ethel Peabody
• Rufus Jones for President1933 · as Mother of Rufus
• On With the Show!1929 · as Ethel

All TV Shows (15)

• The Pearl Bailey Show1971 · as Self
• The Barbara McNair Show1969 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• Daniel Boone1964 · as Rachael
• The Hollywood Palace1964 · as Self
• The Great Adventure1963 · as Rit
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Route 661960
• The Steve Allen Show1956 · as Self - Singer
• Playwrights '561955
• Climax!1954 · as Aunt Kate
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Mother
• The Beulah Show1950 · as Beulah
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self