Ethel Waters
Actor/Actriz
22
Movies
11
TV Shows
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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As Actor/Actress
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Climax!
Aunt Kate
What's My Line?
Self
Daniel Boone
Rachael
Show de Ed Sullivan
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Route 66
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer
The Hollywood Palace
Self
The Great Adventure
Rit
General Electric Theater
Mother
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
Esther
The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
Pinky
Dicey Johnson
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Cairo
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Stage Door Canteen
Ethel Waters
Cabin in the Sky
Petunia Jackson
On With the Show!
Ethel
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Blues Masters
Self (archive footage)
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
The Member of the Wedding
Berenice Sadie Brown
Rufus Jones for President
Mother of Rufus
Gift of Gab
Herself
Bubbling Over
Ethel Peabody
The Heart Is a Rebel
Gladys