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.
64 acting credits
Acting · 64
Top of the Pops
1964
The One Show
2006
Wogan
1982
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
Loose Women
1999
An Audience with...
1978
Benidorm
2007
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
Parkinson
1998
Room 101
1994
The Goodies
1970
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2009
Disco
1971
The Two Ronnies
1971
Through the Keyhole
2013
So Graham Norton
1998
Shindig!
1964
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
2009
Surprise, Surprise
1984
Ready Steady Go!
1963
Blind Date
1985
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
1966
Cilla
1968
Seaside Special
1975
The Story of Light Entertainment
2006
The Moment of Truth
1998
TV Intim
1969
Christmas Night with the Stars
1958
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
Cilla's Comedy Six
1975
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011
Cilla's World Of Comedy
1976
The Brit Girls
1997
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965
Feast
2009
The Day John Lennon Died
2010
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
1994
The Abbey Road Story
1998
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968
Eating With...
2006
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
Al Murray's Happy Hour
2007
Produced by George Martin
2012
The Friday Night Project
2005
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
1983
Cilla at the Savoy
1966
Ferry Cross the Mersey
1965
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
2004
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023
The Frankie Howerd Show
1968
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
2001
The World Of Cilla
1973
...Sings the Beatles
2009
Keith Lemon's LemonAid
2012
Our Cilla: The One and Only
2021
60s Legends in Concert
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Cilla in Scandinavia
1971
The Ark
1993
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
2004
Cilla at the BBC
2015