Acting
Ethel Waters
Also Known As: Sweet Mama Stringbean
Birth Date
October 31, 1896
Death Date
September 1, 1977
(passed away at 80)
Place of Birth
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Popularity
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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.
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What's My Line?
Self
1950 • 1 episode
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961 • 3 episodes
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968 • 1 episode
Climax!
Aunt Kate
1954 • 1 episode
Daniel Boone
Rachael
1964 • 1 episode
Route 66
1960 • 1 episode
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948 • 2 episodes
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer
1956 • 1 episode
The Great Adventure
Rit
1963 • 1 episode
The Hollywood Palace
Self
1964 • 1 episode
Playwrights '56
1955 • 1 episode
The Barbara McNair Show
Self
1969 • 1 episode
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
1971 • 1 episode
General Electric Theater
Mother
1953 • 1 episode
The Beulah Show
Beulah
1950 • 39 episodes
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self (archive footage)
2003
Pinky
Dicey Johnson
1949
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975
Cabin in the Sky
Petunia Jackson
1943