Ethel Waters
Birthday
1896/10/31
Day of death
1977/09/01 (80 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Also know 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 Ame...Read more
Acting
(1942) Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
(1942) Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
(1949) Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
(1952) The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
(1943) Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
(1945) Soundies Festival
as ---
(1929) On With the Show!
as Ethel
(1959) The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
(1934) Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody
(1933) Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus
(2006) Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
as ---
(1973) The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
(1999) Blues Masters
as Self (archive footage)
(1939) Let My People Live
as ---
(1943) Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
(1958) The Heart is a Rebel
as Gladys
(1934) Gift of Gab
as Herself
(1975) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(1976) That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
(1943) The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
(1956) Carib Gold
as Mom
(1975) Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
(2003) Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Sunday School Teacher
(1963) The Great Adventure
as Rit
(1960) Route 66
as ---
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Mother
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Rachael
(1964) The Hollywood Palace
as Self
(1954) Climax!
as Aunt Kate
(1950) The Beulah Show
as Beulah
(1955) Playwrights '56
as ---
(1956) The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer
(1969) The Barbara McNair Show
as Self
(1971) The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest