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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA, 1896-10-31

Died: 1977-09-01

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1929	On With the Show!	Ethel	50
2	1933	Rufus Jones for President	Mother of Rufus	60
3	1934	Bubbling Over	Ethel Peabody	37
4	1934	Gift of Gab	Herself	10
5	1939	Let My People Live		0
6	1942	Tales of Manhattan	Esther	63
7	1942	Cairo	Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid	58
8	1943	Cabin in the Sky	Petunia Jackson	65
9	1943	Stage Door Canteen	Ethel Waters	58
10	1943	The Voice That Thrilled the World	Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)	53
11	1945	Soundies Festival		0
12	1949	Pinky	Dicey Johnson	71
13	1952	The Member of the Wedding	Berenice Sadie Brown	62
14	1956	Carib Gold	Mom	40
15	1956	Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower	Sunday School Teacher	0
16	1958	The Heart is a Rebel	Gladys	0
17	1959	The Sound and the Fury	Dilsey	66
18	1973	The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli	Self (archive footage)	0
19	1975	Black Shadows on a Silver Screen	Self (archive footage)	0
20	1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Self (archive footage)	57
21	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
22	1989	Wild Women Don't Have the Blues	Self (archive footage)	0
23	1999	Blues Masters	Self (archive footage)	60
24	2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Self (archive footage)	70
25	2006	Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self	69
3	1950	The Beulah Show	Beulah	70
4	1953	General Electric Theater	Mother	63
5	1954	Climax!	Aunt Kate	33
6	1955	Playwrights '56		60
7	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Singer	56
8	1960	Route 66		63
9	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
10	1963	The Great Adventure	Rit	0
11	1964	The Hollywood Palace	Self	45
12	1964	Daniel Boone	Rachael	69
13	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
14	1969	The Barbara McNair Show	Self	0
15	1971	The Pearl Bailey Show	Self	0