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.
Movie | If These Walls Could Sing | Self (archive footage) | 2023-01-06 |
Movie | Produced By George Martin | 2012-09-11 | |
Series | Kate Garraway's Life Stories | Unknown | 2009-02-22 |
Series | Feast | Unknown | 2009-03-03 |
Series | Al Murray's Happy Hour | Unknown | 2007-01-13 |
Series | Benidorm | Unknown | 2007-02-01 |
Series | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Unknown | 2007-09-03 |
Series | Eating With... | Unknown | 2006-03-29 |
Series | The Story of Light Entertainment | Unknown | 2006-07-22 |
Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
Series | The Paul O'Grady Show | Unknown | 2004-10-11 |
Movie | The Abbey Road Story | Herself | 1998-01-04 |
Series | So Graham Norton | Unknown | 1998-07-03 |
Series | The Moment of Truth | 1998-09-05 | |
Series | The Beatles Anthology | Self (archive footage) | 1995-11-19 |
Series | Room 101 | Unknown | 1994-07-04 |
Movie | An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck | Self - Audience Member | 1994-10-22 |
Movie | The Ark | Herself | 1993-11-01 |
Series | Blind Date | 1985-11-30 | |
Series | Surprise, Surprise | Self - Presenter | 1984-05-06 |
Series | Wogan | Herself | 1982-05-04 |
Series | An Audience with... | Herself | 1978-01-08 |
Series | Cilla's World Of Comedy | 1976-08-31 | |
Series | Cilla's Comedy Six | 1975-01-15 | |
Series | Seaside Special | Unknown | 1975-07-05 |
Series | The World Of Cilla | 1973-02-03 | |
Series | Disco | Unknown | 1971-02-13 |
Series | The Goodies | Unknown | 1970-11-08 |
Series | Cilla | Self | 1968-01-30 |
Movie | Work Is a 4-Letter Word | Betty Dorrick | 1968-09-15 |
Movie | Ferry Cross the Mersey | Cilla Black | 1965-02-10 |
Series | Top of the Pops | Unknown | 1964-01-01 |
Series | Shindig! | Unknown | 1964-09-16 |
Series | Ready Steady Go! | Unknown | 1963-08-09 |
Series | Christmas Night with the Stars | 1958-12-25 | |
Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |