Ethel Waters
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Pinky
1949
as Dicey Johnson
The Sound and the Fury
1959
as Dilsey
Stage Door Canteen
1943
as Ethel Waters
Cabin in the Sky
1943
as Petunia Jackson
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
The Member of the Wedding
1952
as Berenice Sadie Brown
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
1942
as Esther
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Cairo
1942
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956
as Sunday School Teacher
The Heart is a Rebel
1958
as Gladys
On With the Show!
1929
as Ethel
Gift of Gab
1934
as Herself
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
as Self (archive footage)
Carib Gold
1956
as Mom
Let My People Live
1939
Rufus Jones for President
1933
as Mother of Rufus
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
as Self (archive footage)