
Cilla Black
Acting
- Born:
- 1943-05-27
- Died:
- 2015-08-01
- Place of birth:
- Vauxhall, Liverpool, England, UK
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
Filmography

Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC

Burt Bacharach at the BBC

If These Walls Could Sing

Our Cilla: The One and Only

Cilla at the BBC

Through the Keyhole

Produced by George Martin

Keith Lemon's LemonAid

Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes

The Day John Lennon Died

...Sings the Beatles

Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Feast

Kate Garraway's Life Stories

The 60s: The Beatles Decade
The Alan Titchmarsh Show

Benidorm
Al Murray's Happy Hour

The One Show

The Story of Light Entertainment
Eating With...

The Friday Night Project

Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air

The Paul O'Grady Show

Parkinson

Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle

There's Only One Paul McCartney

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

Loose Women
The Moment of Truth

So Graham Norton

Parkinson

The Abbey Road Story

The Brit Girls

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck

Room 101

The Ark

Live & Kicking

Comic Relief

Blind Date

Surprise, Surprise

Cilla Black's Christmas Eve

Wogan

An Audience with...

Cilla's World Of Comedy

Seaside Special

Cilla's Comedy Six
The World Of Cilla

Cilla in Scandinavia

The Two Ronnies

Disco

The Goodies
TV Intim

The Frankie Howerd Show

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

Cilla

Cilla at the Savoy
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet

The Music of Lennon & McCartney

Ferry Cross the Mersey

Shindig!

Top of the Pops

Ready Steady Go!

Christmas Night with the Stars

The Ed Sullivan Show

60s Legends in Concert