Cilla Black
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2023 · Burt Bacharach at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · If These Walls Could Sing as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Our Cilla: The One and Only as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Cilla at the BBC as Self - Performer
- 2013 · Through the Keyhole as Self - Panelist
- 2012 · Produced By George Martin as Self
- 2011 · Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes as Self
- 2010 · The Day John Lennon Died as Self
- 2009 · ...Sings the Beatles as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Alan Carr: Chatty Man as Self
- 2009 · Feast as
- 2009 · Kate Garraway's Life Stories as Self
- 2007 · The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
- 2007 · Benidorm as
- 2007 · Al Murray's Happy Hour as
- 2006 · The One Show as Self
- 2006 · The Story of Light Entertainment as Self
- 2006 · Eating With... as
- 2004 · Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air as Self
- 2004 · The Paul O'Grady Show as
- 2004 · Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 · There's Only One Paul McCartney as Self
- 2001 · Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 · Loose Women as Self
- 1998 · The Moment of Truth as
- 1998 · So Graham Norton as Self
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1998 · The Abbey Road Story as Self
- 1997 · The Brit Girls as Self (archive footage)
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Host
- 1995 · The Beatles Anthology as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 · An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck as Self - Audience Member
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 1993 · The Ark as Self
- 1985 · Blind Date as
- 1984 · Surprise, Surprise as Self - Presenter
- 1983 · Cilla Black's Christmas Eve as Self
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1976 · Cilla's World Of Comedy as
- 1975 · Seaside Special as
- 1975 · Cilla's Comedy Six as
- 1973 · The World Of Cilla as
- 1971 · Cilla in Scandinavia as Self
- 1971 · The Two Ronnies as
- 1971 · Disco as Self
- 1970 · The Goodies as
- 1969 · TV Intim as Self
- 1968 · The Frankie Howerd Show as Self
- 1968 · Work Is a 4-Letter Word as Betty Dorrick
- 1968 · Cilla as Self
- 1966 · Cilla at the Savoy as Self
- 1966 · 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet as Self
- 1965 · The Music of Lennon & McCartney as Self
- 1965 · Ferry Cross the Mersey as Cilla Black
- 1964 · Shindig! as Self - Singer
- 1964 · Top of the Pops as Self
- 1964 · Top of the Pops as
- 1963 · Ready Steady Go! as Self
- 1959 · The Bruce Forsyth Show as
- 1958 · Christmas Night with the Stars as
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Future · 60s Legends in Concert as Self