Ethel Waters
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.
TV Shows(15)
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
1971
The Barbara McNair Show
Self
1969
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Daniel Boone
Rachael
1964
The Hollywood Palace
Self
1964
The Great Adventure
Rit
1963
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Route 66
1960
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer
1956
Playwrights '56
1955
Climax!
Aunt Kate
1954
General Electric Theater
Mother
1953
The Beulah Show
Beulah
1950
What's My Line?
Self
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Movies(24)
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
2003
Blues Masters
Self (archive footage)
1999
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
1975
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
1973
The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey
1959
The Heart is a Rebel
Gladys
1958
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
Sunday School Teacher
1956
Carib Gold
Mom
1956
The Member of the Wedding
Berenice Sadie Brown
1952
Pinky
Dicey Johnson
1949
Soundies Festival
1945
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
1943
Stage Door Canteen
Ethel Waters
1943
Cabin in the Sky
Petunia Jackson
1943
Cairo
Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
1942
Tales of Manhattan
Esther
1942
Let My People Live
1939
Gift of Gab
Herself
1934
Bubbling Over
Ethel Peabody
1934
Rufus Jones for President
Mother of Rufus
1933
On With the Show!
Ethel
1929