Ethel Waters

Personal Info

Birthday

October 31, 1896

Day of Death

1977-09-01

(80 years old)

Place of Birth

Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As

Sweet Mama Stringbean

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Climax!

Daniel Boone

The Great Adventure

The Beulah Show

General Electric Theater

Pinky

The Sound and the Fury

Bubbling Over

Filmography

2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
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
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
1959
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
1958
The Heart is a Rebel
as Gladys
1956
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Sunday School Teacher
Carib Gold
as Mom
1952
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
1949
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
1942
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
1934
Gift of Gab
as Herself
Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody
1933
Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus
1929
On With the Show!
as Ethel