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Cilla Black

Born 1943-05-27
Died 2015-08-01
📍 Vauxhall, Liverpool, England, UK

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 56

Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2023
If These Walls Could Sing
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Our Cilla: The One and Only
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Cilla at the BBC
as Self - Performer
2015
Oh! You Pretty Things: The Story of British Music and Fashion
as Self
2014
Through the Keyhole
as Self - Panelist
2013
Produced by George Martin
as Self
2012
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
as Self
2011
The Day John Lennon Died
as Self
2010
...Sings the Beatles
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
as Self
2009
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
as Self
2009
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
Benidorm
2007
The One Show
as Self
2006
The Story of Light Entertainment
as Self
2006
The Friday Night Project
as Self - Host
2005
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
as Self
2004
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
as Self (archive footage)
2004
There's Only One Paul McCartney
as Self
2002
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Loose Women
as Self
1999
So Graham Norton
as Self
1998
Parkinson
as Self
1998
The Abbey Road Story
as Self
1998
The Brit Girls
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self - Host
1996
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
as Self - Audience Member
1994
Room 101
as Self
1994
The Ark
as Self
1993
Blind Date
1985
Surprise, Surprise
as Self - Presenter
1984
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
as Self
1983
Wogan
as Self
1982
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
Cilla's World Of Comedy
1976
Seaside Special
1975
Cilla's Comedy Six
1975
Cilla in Scandinavia
as Self
1971
The Two Ronnies
1971
Disco
as Self
1971
The Goodies
1970
The Frankie Howerd Show
as Self
1968
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
as Betty Dorrick
1968
Cilla
as Self
1968
Cilla at the Savoy
as Self
1966
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
as Self
1965
Ferry Cross the Mersey
as Cilla Black
1965
Shindig!
as Self - Singer
1964
Top of the Pops
as Self
1964
Ready Steady Go!
as Self
1963
Christmas Night with the Stars
1958
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
60s Legends in Concert
as Self