Acting
Cilla Black
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
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
Film · 2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Film · 2023
If These Walls Could Sing
Film · 2022
Our Cilla: The One and Only
Film · 2021
Cilla at the BBC
Film · 2015
Through the Keyhole
Series · 2013
Produced by George Martin
Film · 2012
Keith Lemon's LemonAid
Series · 2012
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Film · 2011
The Day John Lennon Died
Film · 2010
...Sings the Beatles
Film · 2009
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Series · 2009
Feast
Series · 2009
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
Series · 2009
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
Series · 2008
Al Murray's Happy Hour
Series · 2007
Benidorm
Series · 2007
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Series · 2007
The One Show
Series · 2006
Eating With...
Series · 2006
The Story of Light Entertainment
Series · 2006
The Friday Night Project
Series · 2005
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
Film · 2004
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Film · 2004
The Paul O'Grady Show
Series · 2004
Parkinson
Series · 2004
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Film · 2002
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
Film · 2001
Loose Women
Series · 1999
The Abbey Road Story
Film · 1998
The Moment of Truth
Series · 1998
So Graham Norton
Series · 1998
Parkinson
Series · 1998
The Brit Girls
Series · 1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Series · 1996
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
Film · 1994
Room 101
Series · 1994
The Ark
Film · 1993
Live & Kicking
Series · 1993
Comic Relief
Series · 1988
Blind Date
Series · 1985
Surprise, Surprise
Series · 1984
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
Film · 1983
Wogan
Series · 1982
An Audience with...
Series · 1978
Cilla's World Of Comedy
Series · 1976
Seaside Special
Series · 1975
Cilla's Comedy Six
Series · 1975
The World Of Cilla
Series · 1973
Cilla in Scandinavia
Film · 1971
Disco
Series · 1971
The Two Ronnies
Series · 1971
The Goodies
Series · 1970
TV Intim
Series · 1969
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Film · 1968
The Frankie Howerd Show
Film · 1968
Cilla
Series · 1968
Cilla at the Savoy
Film · 1966
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
Series · 1966
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
Film · 1965
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Film · 1965
Top of the Pops
Series · 1964
Shindig!
Series · 1964
Ready Steady Go!
Series · 1963
Christmas Night with the Stars
Series · 1958
The Ed Sullivan Show
Series · 1948
60s Legends in Concert
Film