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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Vauxhall, Liverpool, England, UK, 1943-05-27

Died: 2015-08-01

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Ferry Cross the Mersey	Cilla Black	61
2	1965	The Music of Lennon & McCartney	Self	0
3	1966	Cilla at the Savoy	Self	0
4	1968	Work Is a 4-Letter Word	Betty Dorrick	30
5	1968	The Frankie Howerd Show	Self	0
6	1971	Cilla in Scandinavia	Self	60
7	1983	Cilla Black's Christmas Eve	Self	0
8	1993	The Ark	Self	0
9	1994	An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck	Self - Audience Member	0
10	1998	The Abbey Road Story	Self	0
11	2001	Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show	Self (archive footage)	0
12	2002	There's Only One Paul McCartney	Self	0
13	2004	Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle	Self (archive footage)	0
14	2004	Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air	Self	0
15	2009	...Sings the Beatles	Self (archive footage)	0
16	2010	The Day John Lennon Died	Self	80
17	2011	Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes	Self	0
18	2012	Produced By George Martin	Self	77
19	2015	Cilla at the BBC	Self - Performer	63
20	2021	Our Cilla: The One and Only	Self (archive footage)	0
21	2022	If These Walls Could Sing	Self (archive footage)	67
22	2023	Burt Bacharach at the BBC	Self (archive footage)	0
23	2023	Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC	Self (archive footage)	90
24		60s Legends in Concert	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
2	1958	Christmas Night with the Stars		0
3	1959	The Bruce Forsyth Show		0
4	1963	Ready Steady Go!	Self	0
5	1964	Top of the Pops	Self	65
6	1964	Top of the Pops		65
7	1964	Shindig!	Self - Singer	62
8	1966	4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet	Self	0
9	1968	Cilla	Self	100
10	1969	TV Intim	Self	0
11	1970	The Goodies		75
12	1971	Disco	Self	0
13	1971	The Two Ronnies		76
14	1973	The World Of Cilla		0
15	1975	Cilla's Comedy Six		50
16	1975	Seaside Special		20
17	1976	Cilla's World Of Comedy		75
18	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
19	1982	Wogan	Self	45
20	1984	Surprise, Surprise	Self - Presenter	58
21	1985	Blind Date		65
22	1994	Room 101	Self	62
23	1996	Never Mind the Buzzcocks	Self - Host	70
24	1997	The Brit Girls	Self (archive footage)	0
25	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
26	1998	So Graham Norton	Self	63
27	1998	The Moment of Truth		0
28	1999	Loose Women	Self	32
29	2004	The Paul O'Grady Show		46
30	2006	Eating With...		0
31	2006	The Story of Light Entertainment	Self	50
32	2006	The One Show	Self	46
33	2007	Al Murray's Happy Hour		67
34	2007	Benidorm		75
35	2007	The Alan Titchmarsh Show	Self	37
36	2009	Kate Garraway's Life Stories	Self	59
37	2009	Feast		0
38	2009	Alan Carr: Chatty Man	Self	49
39	2013	Through the Keyhole	Self - Panelist	60