Ethel Waters
Acting
Born 1896-10-31
Died 1977-09-01
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
34 credits
The Mike Douglas Show
The Dick Cavett Show
What's My Line?
Climax!
Daniel Boone
The Steve Allen Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Great Adventure
The Hollywood Palace
Pinky
The Beulah Show
The Barbara McNair Show
The Pearl Bailey Show
That's Entertainment, Part II
General Electric Theater
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Stage Door Canteen
Tales of Manhattan
Blues Masters
Bubbling Over
The Sound and the Fury
Cabin in the Sky
Carib Gold
The Member of the Wedding
The Voice That Thrilled the World
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
The Heart Is a Rebel
Gift of Gab
Cairo
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
On With the Show!
Rufus Jones for President
Other credits
5 credits
Route 66
Playwrights '56
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
Let My People Live
Soundies Festival
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