Ethel Waters
Actor
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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Filmography
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson 1943
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage) 1976
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther 1942
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown 1952
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters 1943
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey 1959
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage) 1975
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage) 2003
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid 1942
On With the Show!
as Ethel 1929
Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody 1934
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage) 1943
Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus 1933
Gift of Gab
as Herself 1934
Blues Masters
as Self (archive footage) 1999
Carib Gold
as Mom 1956