Actor
Ethel Waters
October 31, 1896 · Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Often works with
William Lundigan
2 titles together
Pinky, Climax!
Frederick O'Neal
2 titles together
Pinky, Playwrights '56
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
2 titles together
Cabin in the Sky, Tales of Manhattan
Louis Armstrong
2 titles together
Cabin in the Sky, That's Entertainment, Part II
Ruby Dandridge
2 titles together
Cabin in the Sky, The Beulah Show
Ernest Whitman
2 titles together
Cabin in the Sky, The Beulah Show
Full filmography · 24
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
cast
2006
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
19767
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
1959
The Heart Is a Rebel
as Gladys
1958Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Sunday School Teacher
1956
Carib Gold
as Mom
1956
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
19526.3
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
19497.1
Soundies Festival
cast
1945
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
19436.3
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
19436.5
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
1942