Ethel Waters
Acting
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.
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Notable Works
Prominent titles featuring Ethel Waters
Pinky
1949
Filmography
Acting (24)
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were Thereas Self (archive footage)
7.0
1999
Blues Mastersas Self (archive footage)
6.5
1976
That's Entertainment, Part IIas (archive footage)
7.0
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?as Self (archive footage)
6.3
1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screenas Self (archive footage)
1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnellias Self (archive footage)
7.0
1959
The Sound and the Furyas Dilsey
6.8
1958
The Heart Is a Rebelas Gladys
8.0
1956
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Toweras Sunday School Teacher
1956
Carib Goldas Mom
5.5
1952
The Member of the Weddingas Berenice Sadie Brown
6.3
1949
Pinkyas Dicey Johnson
7.1
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the Worldas Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
6.0
1943
Stage Door Canteenas Ethel Waters
6.3
1943
Cabin in the Skyas Petunia Jackson
6.5
1942
Cairoas Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
6.3
1942
Tales of Manhattanas Esther
6.4
7.0
1934
Gift of Gabas Herself
5.2
1934
Bubbling Overas Ethel Peabody
5.0
1933
Rufus Jones for Presidentas Mother of Rufus
7.0
1929
On With the Show!as Ethel
6.2