Ethel Waters
Acting
Born October 31, 1896 · Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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 Wate…
Known For · 39 titles
The Mike Douglas Show
What's My Line?
The Dick Cavett Show
Climax!
Daniel Boone
The Steve Allen Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
Route 66
The Great Adventure
The Hollywood Palace
The Beulah Show
The Barbara McNair Show
Playwrights '56
General Electric Theater
The Pearl Bailey Show
That's Entertainment, Part II
Pinky
Bubbling Over
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Tales of Manhattan
Cabin in the Sky
Carib Gold
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Stage Door Canteen
Blues Masters
The Sound and the Fury
Let My People Live
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
The Member of the Wedding
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
On With the Show!
Cairo
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Gift of Gab
The Heart Is a Rebel
Rufus Jones for President
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
Soundies Festival