Cilla Black
Acting
1943-05-27 · Vauxhall, Liverpool, England, UK
Priscilla Maria Veronica White is best known by her stage name Cilla Black. She rose to fame in the 1960s as a pop singer and her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She hosted her own variety show titled "Cilla" in the 60s and 70s and was an occasional comedy actress. Her career had a massive resurgence in the mid-80s and 1990s were she presented "Blind Date" were many tuned in for her acerbic comments, "Surprise Surprise" showed her softer side and "The Moment of Truth" was her successful peaktime game show. In the 2000s she put in memorable appearances on chat shows such as "The Paul O'Grady Show", "Loose Women" and "So Graham Norton". She died on 1st August 2015 after a fall in her villa in Estepona, Spain. The day after her funeral, the compilation album The Very Best of Cilla Black went to number one on the UK Albums Chart and the New Zealand Albums Chart; it was her first number one album.
Filmography
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023 · Movie
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
2023 · Movie
If These Walls Could Sing
2022 · Movie
Our Cilla: The One and Only
2021 · Movie
Cilla at the BBC
2015 · Movie
Through the Keyhole
2013 · Series
Produced by George Martin
2012 · Movie
Keith Lemon's LemonAid
2012 · Series
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011 · Movie
The Day John Lennon Died
2010 · Movie
...Sings the Beatles
2009 · Movie
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2009 · Series
Feast
2009 · Series
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
2009 · Series
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008 · Series
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · Series
Benidorm
2007 · Series
Al Murray's Happy Hour
2007 · Series
The One Show
2006 · Series
The Story of Light Entertainment
2006 · Series
Eating With...
2006 · Series
The Friday Night Project
2005 · Series
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
2004 · Movie
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004 · Series
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
2004 · Movie
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002 · Movie
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
2001 · Movie
Loose Women
1999 · Series
The Moment of Truth
1998 · Series
So Graham Norton
1998 · Series
Parkinson
1998 · Series
The Abbey Road Story
1998 · Movie
The Brit Girls
1997 · Series
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996 · Series
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
1994 · Movie
Room 101
1994 · Series
The Ark
1993 · Movie
Live & Kicking
1993 · Series
Blind Date
1985 · Series
Surprise, Surprise
1984 · Series
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
1983 · Movie
Wogan
1982 · Series
An Audience with...
1978 · Series
Cilla's World Of Comedy
1976 · Series
Alfie Darling
1975 · Movie
Seaside Special
1975 · Series
Cilla's Comedy Six
1975 · Series
The World Of Cilla
1973 · Series
Cilla in Scandinavia
1971 · Movie
The Two Ronnies
1971 · Series
Disco
1971 · Series
The Goodies
1970 · Series
TV Intim
1969 · Series
The Frankie Howerd Show
1968 · Movie
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968 · Movie
Cilla
1968 · Series
Cilla at the Savoy
1966 · Movie
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
1966 · Series
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965 · Movie
Ferry Cross the Mersey
1965 · Movie
Shindig!
1964 · Series
Top of the Pops
1964 · Series
Ready Steady Go!
1963 · Series
Christmas Night with the Stars
1958 · Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
60s Legends in Concert
Movie