Cilla Black
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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
If These Walls Could Sing (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
as Betty Dorrick
There's Only One Paul McCartney (2002)
as Self
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes (2011)
as Self
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck (1994)
as Self - Audience Member
Produced by George Martin (2012)
as Self
...Sings the Beatles (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965)
as Cilla Black
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Cilla in Scandinavia (1971)
as Self
The Abbey Road Story (1998)
as Self
The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965)
as Self
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
The Day John Lennon Died (2010)
as Self
Our Cilla: The One and Only (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Frankie Howerd Show (1968)
as Self
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve (1983)
as Self
Burt Bacharach at the BBC (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
60s Legends in Concert (—)
as Self
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air (2004)
as Self
Cilla at the Savoy (1966)
as Self
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
The Ark (1993)
as Self
Cilla at the BBC (2015)
as Self - Performer