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Ethel Waters Acting Filmography (24)
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003·Self (archive footage)
Blues Masters
1999·Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976·(archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975·Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975·Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973·Self (archive footage)
The Sound and the Fury
1959·Dilsey
The Heart is a Rebel
1958·Gladys
Carib Gold
1956·Mom
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956·Sunday School Teacher
The Member of the Wedding
1952·Berenice Sadie Brown
Pinky
1949·Dicey Johnson
Soundies Festival
1945
Cabin in the Sky
1943·Petunia Jackson
Stage Door Canteen
1943·Ethel Waters
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943·Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Tales of Manhattan
1942·Esther
Cairo
1942·Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
Let My People Live
1939
Bubbling Over
1934·Ethel Peabody
Gift of Gab
1934·Herself
Rufus Jones for President
1933·Mother of Rufus
On With the Show!
1929·Ethel