Ethel Waters
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1896-10-31
Day of Death
1977-09-01 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Ethel Waters
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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Known For
Acting
(2006)
(2003)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
(1999)
Blues Masters
as Self (archive footage)
(1989)
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
as Self (archive footage)
(1976)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1975)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1975)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
(1973)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
(1959)
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
(1958)
The Heart is a Rebel
as Gladys
(1956)
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Sunday School Teacher
(1956)
Carib Gold
as Mom
(1952)
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
(1949)
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
(1945)
(1943)
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
(1943)
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
(1943)
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
(1942)
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
(1942)
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
(1939)
(1934)
Gift of Gab
as Herself
(1934)
Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody
(1933)
Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus
(1929)
On With the Show!
as Ethel