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Birthday: Oct 31, 1896
Place of Birth: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Ethel Waters

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
Movie Cast Year
Tales of Manhattan Esther 1942
Cairo Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid 1942
Pinky Dicey Johnson 1949
The Member of the Wedding Berenice Sadie Brown 1952
Cabin in the Sky Petunia Jackson 1943
Soundies Festival 1945
On With the Show! Ethel 1929
The Sound and the Fury Dilsey 1959
Bubbling Over Ethel Peabody 1934
Rufus Jones for President Mother of Rufus 1933
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1 2006
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli Self (archive footage) 1973
Blues Masters Self (archive footage) 1999
Let My People Live 1939
Stage Door Canteen Ethel Waters 1943
The Heart is a Rebel Gladys 1958
Gift of Gab Herself 1934
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues Self (archive footage) 1989
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Self (archive footage) 1975
That's Entertainment, Part II (archive footage) 1976
The Voice That Thrilled the World Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage) 1943
Carib Gold Mom 1957
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen Self (archive footage) 1975
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Self (archive footage) 2003
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower Sunday School Teacher 1956
Series Cast Year
The Great Adventure Rit 1963
Route 66 1960
The Ed Sullivan Show Self 1948
General Electric Theater Mother 1953
Daniel Boone Rachael 1964
The Hollywood Palace Self 1964
Climax! Aunt Kate 1954
The Beulah Show Beulah 1950
Playwrights '56 1955
The Steve Allen Show Self - Singer 1956
The Barbara McNair Show Self 1969
The Pearl Bailey Show Self 1971
The Mike Douglas Show Self 1961
What's My Line? Self - Mystery Guest 1950
The Dick Cavett Show Self - Guest 1968
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