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.

Filmography

• 2006Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
• 1976That's Entertainment, Part II — (archive footage)
• Daniel Boone — Rachael
• The Great Adventure — Rit
• Route 66
• 1959The Sound and the Fury — Dilsey
• 1958The Heart Is a Rebel — Gladys
• 1956Carib Gold — Mom
• 1956Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower — Sunday School Teacher
• Playwrights '56
• Climax! — Aunt Kate
• General Electric Theater — Mother
• 1952The Member of the Wedding — Berenice Sadie Brown
• The Beulah Show — Beulah
• 1949Pinky — Dicey Johnson
• 1945Soundies Festival
• 1943Cabin in the Sky — Petunia Jackson
• 1943Stage Door Canteen — Ethel Waters
• 1942Cairo — Cleona Jones
• 1942Tales of Manhattan — Esther
• 1939Let My People Live
• 1934Bubbling Over — Ethel Peabody
• 1933Rufus Jones for President — Mother of Rufus
• 1929On With the Show! — Ethel

Appearances as themselves (15)

• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Blues Masters — Self (archive footage)
• 1975Black Shadows on a Silver Screen — Self (archive footage)
• 1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? — Self (archive footage)
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli — Self (archive footage)
• The Pearl Bailey Show — Self
• The Barbara McNair Show — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Hollywood Palace — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The Steve Allen Show — Self - Singer
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• 1943The Voice That Thrilled the World — Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
• 1934Gift of Gab — Herself