10/31/1896
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1 (2006) as |
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) as Self (archive footage) |
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Blues Masters (1999) as Self (archive footage) |
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That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) as (archive footage) |
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) as Self (archive footage) |
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975) as Self (archive footage) |
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973) as Self (archive footage) |
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The Sound and the Fury (1959) as Dilsey |
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The Heart is a Rebel (1958) as Gladys |
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Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956) as Sunday School Teacher |
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Carib Gold (1956) as Mom |
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The Member of the Wedding (1952) as Berenice Sadie Brown |
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Pinky (1949) as Dicey Johnson |
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Soundies Festival (1945) as |
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The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943) as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage) |
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Stage Door Canteen (1943) as Ethel Waters |
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Cabin in the Sky (1943) as Petunia Jackson |
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Cairo (1942) as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid |
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Tales of Manhattan (1942) as Esther |
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Let My People Live (1939) as |
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Gift of Gab (1934) as Herself |
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Bubbling Over (1934) as Ethel Peabody |
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Rufus Jones for President (1933) as Mother of Rufus |
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On With the Show! (1929) as Ethel |