Ethel Waters
ActingEthel 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
Pinky
Dicey Johnson
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
Esther
The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
Cairo
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Stage Door Canteen
Ethel Waters
Cabin in the Sky
Petunia Jackson
The Member of the Wedding
Berenice Sadie Brown
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Filmography — Acting
Pinky
Dicey Johnson
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
Esther
The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
Cairo
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Stage Door Canteen
Ethel Waters
Cabin in the Sky
Petunia Jackson
The Member of the Wedding
Berenice Sadie Brown
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The Heart is a Rebel
Gladys
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
Gift of Gab
Herself
On With the Show!
Ethel
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Sunday School Teacher
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Rufus Jones for President
Mother of Rufus
Blues Masters
Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
Let My People Live
Carib Gold
Mom
Bubbling Over
Ethel Peabody
