Ethel Waters
ActingAlso Known As
Sweet Mama Stringbean
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.
Movies
(24 total)
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
On With the Show!
as Ethel
Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus
Gift of Gab
as Herself
Blues Masters
as Self (archive footage)
Carib Gold
as Mom
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
TV Shows
(15 total)
Daniel Boone
as Rachael
What's My Line?
as Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
Climax!
as Aunt Kate
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
General Electric Theater
as Mother
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer
The Hollywood Palace
as Self
The Great Adventure
as Rit