Ethel Waters
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.
39 acting credits
Acting · 39
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Climax!
1954
Daniel Boone
1964
Route 66
1960
What's My Line?
1950
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Steve Allen Show
1956
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Hollywood Palace
1964
The Great Adventure
1963
Playwrights '56
1955
General Electric Theater
1953
The Barbara McNair Show
1969
The Beulah Show
1950
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
Pinky
1949
Tales of Manhattan
1942
Stage Door Canteen
1943
The Sound and the Fury
1959
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Cairo
1942
Cabin in the Sky
1943
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
The Member of the Wedding
1952
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
The Heart Is a Rebel
1958
Gift of Gab
1934
On With the Show!
1929
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956
Rufus Jones for President
1933
Let My People Live
1939
Bubbling Over
1934
Carib Gold
1956
Soundies Festival
1945
Blues Masters
1999
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006