Cilla Black

Biography

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

Top of the Pops

The One Show

Wogan

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

The Ed Sullivan Show

Loose Women

Benidorm

An Audience with...

All Movies (24)

• Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Burt Bacharach at the BBC2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• If These Walls Could Sing2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Our Cilla: The One and Only2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cilla at the BBC2015 · as Self - Performer
• Produced by George Martin2012 · as Self
• Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes2011 · as Self
• The Day John Lennon Died2010 · as Self
• ...Sings the Beatles2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air2004 · as Self
• Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• There's Only One Paul McCartney2002 · as Self
• Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show2001 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Abbey Road Story1998 · as Self
• An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck1994 · as Self - Audience Member
• The Ark1993 · as Self
• Cilla Black's Christmas Eve1983 · as Self
• Cilla in Scandinavia1971 · as Self
• The Frankie Howerd Show1968 · as Self
• Work Is a 4-Letter Word1968 · as Betty Dorrick
• Cilla at the Savoy1966 · as Self
• The Music of Lennon & McCartney1965 · as Self
• Ferry Cross the Mersey1965 · as Cilla Black
• 60s Legends in Concert— · as Self

All TV Shows (41)

• Through the Keyhole2013 · as Self - Panelist
• Keith Lemon's LemonAid2012 · as Self - Guest
• Alan Carr: Chatty Man2009 · as Self
• Feast2009
• Kate Garraway's Life Stories2009 · as Self
• The 60s: The Beatles Decade2008
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show2007 · as Self
• Benidorm2007
• Al Murray's Happy Hour2007
• The One Show2006 · as Self
• The Story of Light Entertainment2006 · as Self
• Eating With...2006
• The Friday Night Project2005 · as Self - Host
• The Paul O'Grady Show2004
• Loose Women1999 · as Self
• The Moment of Truth1998
• So Graham Norton1998 · as Self
• Parkinson1998 · as Self
• The Brit Girls1997 · as Self (archive footage)
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks1996 · as Self - Host
• Room 1011994 · as Self
• Live & Kicking1993 · as Self
• Blind Date1985
• Surprise, Surprise1984 · as Self - Presenter
• Wogan1982 · as Self
• An Audience with...1978 · as Self
• Cilla's World Of Comedy1976
• Seaside Special1975
• Cilla's Comedy Six1975
• The World Of Cilla1973
• The Two Ronnies1971
• Disco1971 · as Self
• The Goodies1970
• TV Intim1969 · as Self
• Cilla1968 · as Self
• 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet1966 · as Self
• Shindig!1964 · as Self - Singer
• Top of the Pops1964 · as Self
• Ready Steady Go!1963 · as Self
• Christmas Night with the Stars1958
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self