
Cilla Black
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965

There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002

Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
2004

Burt Bacharach at the BBC
2023

Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023

Cilla in Scandinavia
1971

Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
1983

Ferry Cross the Mersey
1965

Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968

The Frankie Howerd Show
1968

Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
2004

Cilla at the BBC
2015

...Sings the Beatles
2009

Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
2001

60s Legends in Concert
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The Ark
1993

An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
1994

Our Cilla: The One and Only
2021

Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011

If These Walls Could Sing
2022

The Abbey Road Story
1998

Cilla at the Savoy
1966

Produced by George Martin
2012

The Day John Lennon Died
2010

Oh! You Pretty Things: The Story of British Music and Fashion
2014

Blind Date
1985

The One Show
2006

Top of the Pops
1964

4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
1966

Surprise, Surprise
1984

The Paul O'Grady Show
2004

The Goodies
1970

TV Intim
1969

Ready Steady Go!
1963

Al Murray's Happy Hour
2007

The Moment of Truth
1998

Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2009

Shindig!
1964

Benidorm
2007

The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007

So Graham Norton
1998

Feast
2009

Seaside Special
1975

Kate Garraway's Life Stories
2009

Eating With...
2006

The World Of Cilla
1973

The Story of Light Entertainment
2006

Cilla's Comedy Six
1975

Cilla's World Of Comedy
1976

The Brit Girls
1997

Cilla
1968

Disco
1971

An Audience with...
1978

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

Wogan
1982

The Two Ronnies
1971

Room 101
1994

Christmas Night with the Stars
1958

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996

Through the Keyhole
2013

Parkinson
1998

Loose Women
1999

The Friday Night Project
2005

The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008