Cast
Ethel Waters
Acting
Cast
Ethel Waters
Known for
Acting
Born
1896-10-31
From
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
1977-09-01
Also 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.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Sunday School Teacher
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
On With the Show!
as Ethel
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
Blues Masters
as Self (archive footage)
The Heart Is a Rebel
as Gladys
Gift of Gab
as Herself
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
Carib Gold
as Mom
Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus
Let My People Live
Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody
Soundies Festival
