Ethel Waters
Known for: Acting
Born: October 31, 1896
Died: September 1, 1977
Place of birth: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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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Filmography
24 movies · 15 TV shows, newest first
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Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
7.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
6.5
Blues Masters
1999
7.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
6.3
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
7.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
19738.0
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971
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The Barbara McNair Show
1969
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
7.0
Daniel Boone
1964
5.0
The Hollywood Palace
1964
10.0
The Great Adventure
1963
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
6.7
Route 66
1960
6.8
The Sound and the Fury
1959
8.0
The Heart Is a Rebel
1958NR
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956
5.5
Carib Gold
1956
6.2
The Steve Allen Show
19566.3
Playwrights '56
1955
3.8
Climax!
1954
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
6.3
The Member of the Wedding
19527.3
The Beulah Show
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
7.1
Pinky
1949
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
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Soundies Festival
1945
6.0
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
6.3
Stage Door Canteen
1943
6.5
Cabin in the Sky
1943
6.3
Cairo
1942
6.4
Tales of Manhattan
1942
7.0
Let My People Live
1939
5.2
Gift of Gab
1934
5.0
Bubbling Over
1934
7.0
Rufus Jones for President
1933
6.2
On With the Show!
1929