Cilla Black
Acting • Born 1943-05-27 – Died 2015-08-01
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.
Filmography
63 credits
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
Movie • 1965
Self
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Movie • 2002
Self
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
Movie • 2004
Self
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Cilla in Scandinavia
Movie • 1971
Self
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
Movie • 1983
Self
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Movie • 1965
Cilla Black
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Movie • 1968
Betty Dorrick
The Frankie Howerd Show
Movie • 1968
Self
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Cilla at the BBC
Movie • 2015
Self - Performer
...Sings the Beatles
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
60s Legends in Concert
Movie
Self
The Ark
Movie • 1993
Self
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
Movie • 1994
Self - Audience Member
Our Cilla: The One and Only
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Movie • 2011
Self
If These Walls Could Sing
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Abbey Road Story
Movie • 1998
Self
Cilla at the Savoy
Movie • 1966
Self
Produced by George Martin
Movie • 2012
Self
The Day John Lennon Died
Movie • 2010
Self
Oh! You Pretty Things: The Story of British Music and Fashion
Movie • 2014
Self
Blind Date
TV • 1985
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Top of the Pops
TV • 1964
Self
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
TV • 1966
Self
Surprise, Surprise
TV • 1984
Self - Presenter
The Paul O'Grady Show
TV • 2004
The Goodies
TV • 1970
TV Intim
TV • 1969
Self
Ready Steady Go!
TV • 1963
Self
Al Murray's Happy Hour
TV • 2007
The Moment of Truth
TV • 1998
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
TV • 2009
Self
Shindig!
TV • 1964
Self - Singer
Benidorm
TV • 2007
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
TV • 2007
Self
So Graham Norton
TV • 1998
Self
Feast
TV • 2009
Seaside Special
TV • 1975
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
TV • 2009
Self
Eating With...
TV • 2006
The World Of Cilla
TV • 1973
The Story of Light Entertainment
TV • 2006
Self
Cilla's Comedy Six
TV • 1975
Cilla's World Of Comedy
TV • 1976
The Brit Girls
TV • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Cilla
TV • 1968
Self
Disco
TV • 1971
Self
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
The Two Ronnies
TV • 1971
Room 101
TV • 1994
Self
Christmas Night with the Stars
TV • 1958
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV • 1996
Self - Host
Through the Keyhole
TV • 2013
Self - Panelist
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Loose Women
TV • 1999
Self
The Friday Night Project
TV • 2005
Self - Host