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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1896-10-31 (128 years old)

Place of Birth

Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Ethel Waters

Biography:

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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Known For

Acting

2006

2003

1999

Blues Masters as Self (archive footage)

1989

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues as Self (archive footage)

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)

1973

1971

1969

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1964

Daniel Boone as Rachael

1963

1961

1960

1959

1958

1956

Carib Gold as Mom
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower as Sunday School Teacher
The Steve Allen Show as Self - Singer

1955

1954

Climax! as Aunt Kate

1953

1952

The Member of the Wedding as Berenice Sadie Brown

1950

The Beulah Show as Beulah

1949

Pinky as Dicey Johnson

1948

1945

1943

Cabin in the Sky as Petunia Jackson
Stage Door Canteen as Ethel Waters
The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)

1942

Cairo as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid

1939

1934

Bubbling Over as Ethel Peabody
Gift of Gab as Herself

1933

Rufus Jones for President as Mother of Rufus

1929