Ethel Ayler

Born: 1930-05-01

Ethyl Spraggins Ayler (May 1, 1930 – November 18, 2018) was an American character actress with a career spanning over five decades.


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Nine 1/2 Weeks

as Jewelry Saleswoman
Released: 1986-02-09

An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an...

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as Emma
Released: 1992-11-25

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's...

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Eve's Bayou

as Gran Mère
Released: 1997-11-07

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to...

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To Sleep with Anger

as Hattie
Released: 1990-10-12

An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in...

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The Wedding

as Eunice
Released: 1998-02-22

Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but...

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Lord Shango

as Lady in bar (uncredited)
Released: 1975-03-01

A tribal priest returns from the dead to take his revenge on non-believers.

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Stormy Weathers

as Clara Wilkes
Released: 1992-05-04

Shepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby...

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Fire & Ice

as Lola Aimes
Released: 2001-01-22

While many celebrities believe their fame gives them good luck with the opposite gender, one man...

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Time of the Heathen

as Marie
Released: 1962-03-05

In New York four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a bible-carrying drifter who witnesses...

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The First Breeze of Summer

as Hattie
Released: 1976-01-28

A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly...

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Friends

as Hospital Administrator
First aired: 1994-09-22

Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world,...

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Family Ties

as Ms. Daniels
First aired: 1982-09-22

Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex,...

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The Cosby Show

as Carrie Hanks
First aired: 1984-09-20

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for...

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Great Performances

as Hattie
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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Six Feet Under

as Ellen
First aired: 2001-06-03

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of...

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Melrose Place

as Mrs. Bowen
First aired: 1992-07-08

Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose...

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Girlfriends

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-09-11

The series revolves around the friendship of four African-American women in different phases of...

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Martin

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-08-27

Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his...

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7th Heaven

as Mrs. Macaferty
First aired: 1996-08-26

Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven...

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Jake and the Fatman

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-09-26

Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L....

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Out of Practice

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-09-19

Out of Practice is an American situation comedy

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The Andros Targets

as Beatrice Long
First aired: 1977-01-31

James Sutorious star as Mike Andros, a newspaper investigative reporter who seeks out corruption...

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