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.
23 movies · 41 shows
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023·9.0
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
2023·0.0
If These Walls Could Sing
2022·6.5
Our Cilla: The One and Only
2021·0.0
Cilla at the BBC
2015·6.3
Produced by George Martin
2012·7.4
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
2011·0.0
The Day John Lennon Died
2010·8.0
...Sings the Beatles
2009·0.0
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
2004·0.0
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
2004·0.0
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002·8.0
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
2001·9.0
The Abbey Road Story
1998·0.0
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
1994·10.0
The Ark
1993·0.0
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
1983·0.0
Cilla in Scandinavia
1971·6.0
The Frankie Howerd Show
1968·0.0
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968·6.0
Cilla at the Savoy
1966·0.0
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965·7.0
Ferry Cross the Mersey
1965·6.1