Ethel Waters
Known for: Acting
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
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Daniel Boone
Rachael
1964
Series
Climax!
Aunt Kate
1954
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
Route 66
1960
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer
1956
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
The Hollywood Palace
Self
1964
Series
The Great Adventure
Rit
1963
Playwrights '56
1955
The Beulah Show
Beulah
1950
The Barbara McNair Show
Self
1969
Film
Pinky
Dicey Johnson
1949
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
1971
Film
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
Series
General Electric Theater
Mother
1953
Film
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975
Film
Stage Door Canteen
Ethel Waters
1943
Film
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Blues Masters
Self (archive footage)
1999
Film
Bubbling Over
Ethel Peabody
1934
Film
The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
1959
Film
Tales of Manhattan
Esther
1942
Film
Cabin in the Sky
Petunia Jackson
1943
Film
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
Film
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
1943
Film
Carib Gold
Mom
1956
Film
The Member of the Wedding
Berenice Sadie Brown
1952
Film
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
1973
Film
Let My People Live
1939
Film
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
1975
Film
Cairo
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
1942
Film
The Heart Is a Rebel
Gladys
1958
Film
On With the Show!
Ethel
1929
Film
Gift of Gab
Herself
1934
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Sunday School Teacher
1956
Film
Rufus Jones for President
Mother of Rufus
1933
Film
Soundies Festival
1945