Where to watch Ethel Waters in the UK
Find every Ethel Waters film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 4 May 2026.
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 Wate…
Ethel Waters films streaming in the UK
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Ethel Waters TV shows streaming in the UK
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- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- What's My Line? (1950) as Self
- Climax! (1954) as Aunt Kate
- Route 66 (1960) Cast
- Daniel Boone (1964) as Rachael
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- The Steve Allen Show (1956) as Self - Singer
- The Great Adventure (1963) as Rit
- The Hollywood Palace (1964) as Self
- Playwrights '56 (1955) Cast
- The Barbara McNair Show (1969) as Self
- Pinky (1949) as Dicey Johnson
- The Pearl Bailey Show (1971) as Self
- The Beulah Show (1950) as Beulah
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Mother
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) as Self (archive footage)
- The Sound and the Fury (1959) as Dilsey
- That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) as (archive footage)
- Gift of Gab (1934) as Herself
- Stage Door Canteen (1943) as Ethel Waters
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973) as Self (archive footage)
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) as Self (archive footage)
- Tales of Manhattan (1942) as Esther
- The Member of the Wedding (1952) as Berenice Sadie Brown
- Cabin in the Sky (1943) as Petunia Jackson
- Cairo (1942) as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
- The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943) as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975) as Self (archive footage)
- On With the Show! (1929) as Ethel
- The Heart is a Rebel (1958) as Gladys
- Carib Gold (1956) as Mom
- Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956) as Sunday School Teacher
- Let My People Live (1939) Cast
- Rufus Jones for President (1933) as Mother of Rufus
- Bubbling Over (1934) as Ethel Peabody
- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1 (2006) Cast
- Blues Masters (1999) as Self (archive footage)
- Soundies Festival (1945) Cast
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What are Ethel Waters's most popular films?
Most-watched Ethel Waters films currently: Pinky (1949), Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003), The Sound and the Fury (1959), That's Entertainment, Part II (1976), Gift of Gab (1934).
What TV shows has Ethel Waters appeared in?
Selected TV credits: The Mike Douglas Show (1961), What's My Line? (1950), Climax! (1954), Route 66 (1960), Daniel Boone (1964).
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