Ethel Waters
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
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- Born:
- Oct 31, 1896 In Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 14
- First Appeared:
- In the movie On With the Show! 1929-07-13
- Latest Project:
- Movie Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003-04-03
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self (archive footage) | 2003-04-03 |
| Movie | Blues Masters | Self (archive footage) | 1999-01-01 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
| Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
| Movie | The Sound and the Fury | Dilsey | 1959-03-27 |
| Movie | The Member of the Wedding | Berenice Sadie Brown | 1952-12-25 |
| Movie | Cabin in the Sky | Petunia Jackson | 1943-03-24 |
| Movie | Stage Door Canteen | Ethel Waters | 1943-06-24 |
| Movie | Tales of Manhattan | Esther | 1942-08-05 |
| Movie | Cairo | Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid | 1942-08-17 |
| Movie | Let My People Live | 1939-03-10 | |
| Movie | Gift of Gab | Herself | 1934-09-01 |
| Movie | Rufus Jones for President | Mother of Rufus | 1933-09-09 |
| Movie | On With the Show! | Ethel | 1929-07-13 |