Cilla Black
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Top of the Pops
Self
1964
Series
The One Show
Self
2006
Series
Wogan
Self
1982
Series
Loose Women
Self
1999
Series
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self - Host
1996
Series
The Goodies
1970
Series
Parkinson
Self
1998
Series
Benidorm
2007
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
An Audience with...
Self
1978
Series
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
2007
Series
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Self
2009
Series
Room 101
Self
1994
Series
The Two Ronnies
1971
Series
Live & Kicking
Self
1993
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
Self
1966
Series
Surprise, Surprise
Self - Presenter
1984
Series
So Graham Norton
Self
1998
Series
Through the Keyhole
Self - Panelist
2013
Series
Disco
Self
1971
Series
Shindig!
Self - Singer
1964
Series
Blind Date
1985
Series
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
Self
2009
Series
Cilla
Self
1968
Series
Ready Steady Go!
Self
1963
Series
Seaside Special
1975
Al Murray's Happy Hour
2007
Series
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
Series
The Story of Light Entertainment
Self
2006
Film
If These Walls Could Sing
Self (archive footage)
2022
TV Intim
Self
1969
Film
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Self
2002
The Moment of Truth
1998
Feast
2009
Series
Cilla's Comedy Six
1975
Series
Cilla's World Of Comedy
1976
Film
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
Self
1965
Series
Keith Lemon's LemonAid
Self - Guest
2012
Series
Christmas Night with the Stars
1958
The World Of Cilla
1973
Film
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
Self - Audience Member
1994
Film
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Self
2011
Series
The Brit Girls
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
Produced by George Martin
Self
2012
Eating With...
2006
Film
Our Cilla: The One and Only
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Betty Dorrick
1968
Film
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
Self (archive footage)
2001
Film
Cilla in Scandinavia
Self
1971
Film
The Abbey Road Story
Self
1998
Film
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
...Sings the Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Cilla Black
1965
Film
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
Self
1983
Film
The Day John Lennon Died
Self
2010
Film
The Ark
Self
1993
Film
Cilla at the BBC
Self - Performer
2015
Film
60s Legends in Concert
Self
Film
Cilla at the Savoy
Self
1966
Film
The Frankie Howerd Show
Self
1968
Film
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
Self
2004
Series
The Friday Night Project
Self - Host
2005