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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: October 31, 1896
Place of Birth: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
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as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Guest
as Rachael
as Self
as Rit
as Self
as Dilsey
as Gladys
as Mom
as Self - Singer
as Aunt Kate
as Mother
as Berenice Sadie Brown
as Self
as Dicey Johnson
as Self
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
as Ethel Waters
as Petunia Jackson
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
as Esther
as Herself
as Ethel Peabody
as Mother of Rufus
as Ethel