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