Cilla Black
ActingAlso Known As
Priscilla Maria Veronica White
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.
Movies
(25 total)
If These Walls Could Sing
as Self (archive footage)
Ferry Cross the Mersey
as Cilla Black
Cilla at the BBC
as Self - Performer
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
Cilla in Scandinavia
as Self
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
as Betty Dorrick
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
The Frankie Howerd Show
as Self
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
as Self (archive footage)
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
as Self (archive footage)
60s Legends in Concert
as Self
The Ark
as Self
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
as Self - Audience Member
Our Cilla: The One and Only
as Self (archive footage)
TV Shows
(38 total)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self - Host
Top of the Pops
as Self
The One Show
as Self
Room 101
as Self
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Loose Women
as Self
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
as Self
Wogan
as Self
So Graham Norton
as Self
Surprise, Surprise
as Self - Presenter
Shindig!
as Self - Singer
The Friday Night Project
as Self - Host
An Audience with...
as Self
Through the Keyhole
as Self - Panelist