Acting credits
33
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Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Ethel Waters
Acting
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Movies: 22Series: 11
TMDB ID: 98570
IMDb ID: nm0914083
Known for: Acting
Born: October 31, 1896
Died: September 1, 1977
Age: 80
Place of birth: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1929 - 2006
Years active: 78
Average TMDB rating: 6.73
Wikidata: Q242725
Also known as
Sweet Mama Stringbean
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Ethel Waters.
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006 Movie
7.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
2003 Movie
6.0
Blues Masters
as Self (archive footage)
1999 Movie
6.9
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976 Movie
6.1
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975 Movie
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1975 Movie
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
1973 Movie
6.6
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
1959 Movie
The Heart is a Rebel
as Gladys
1958 Movie
4.0
Carib Gold
as Mom
1956 Movie
6.2
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
1952 Movie
7.1
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
1949 Movie
5.3
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
1943 Movie
6.1
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
1943 Movie
6.5
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
1943 Movie
5.8
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
1942 Movie
6.3
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
1942 Movie
Let My People Live
1939 Movie
2.5
Gift of Gab
as Herself
1934 Movie
3.7
Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody
1934 Movie
6.0
Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus
1933 Movie
5.2
On With the Show!
as Ethel
1929 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Ethel Waters.
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1968 Series
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Rachael • 1 eps
1964 Series
4.5
The Hollywood Palace
as Self • 1 eps
1964 Series
The Great Adventure
as Rit • 1 eps
1963 Series
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self • 3 eps
1961 Series
6.3
Route 66
1 eps
1960 Series
5.6
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer • 1 eps
1956 Series
3.3
Climax!
as Aunt Kate • 1 eps
1954 Series
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Mother • 1 eps
1953 Series
7.0
What's My Line?
as Self • 1 eps
1950 Series
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self • 2 eps
1948 Series