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

Pinky

as Dicey Johnson

Cabin in the Sky

as Petunia Jackson

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

Tales of Manhattan

as Esther

Daniel Boone

as Rachael

What's My Line?

as Self

The Member of the Wedding

as Berenice Sadie Brown

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Stage Door Canteen

as Ethel Waters