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.

Cast

The Music of Lennon & McCartney

(Self)

There's Only One Paul McCartney

(Self)

Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air

(Self)

Burt Bacharach at the BBC

(Self (archive footage))

Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC

(Self (archive footage))

Cilla in Scandinavia

(Self)

Cilla Black's Christmas Eve

(Self)

Ferry Cross the Mersey

(Cilla Black)

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

(Betty Dorrick)

The Frankie Howerd Show

(Self)

Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle

(Self (archive footage))

Cilla at the BBC

(Self - Performer)

...Sings the Beatles

(Self (archive footage))

Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show

(Self (archive footage))

60s Legends in Concert

(Self)

The Ark

(Self)

An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck

(Self - Audience Member)

Our Cilla: The One and Only

(Self (archive footage))

Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes

(Self)

If These Walls Could Sing

(Self (archive footage))

The Abbey Road Story

(Self)

Cilla at the Savoy

(Self)

Produced By George Martin

(Self)

The Day John Lennon Died

(Self)

Oh! You Pretty Things: The Story of British Music and Fashion

(Self)

Blind Date

The One Show

(Self)

Top of the Pops

(Self)

4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet

(Self)

Surprise, Surprise

(Self - Presenter)

The Paul O'Grady Show

The Goodies

TV Intim

(Self)

Ready Steady Go!

(Self)

Al Murray's Happy Hour

The Moment of Truth

Alan Carr: Chatty Man

(Self)

Shindig!

(Self - Singer)

Benidorm

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

(Self)

So Graham Norton

(Self)

Feast

Seaside Special

Kate Garraway's Life Stories

(Self)

Eating With...

The World Of Cilla

The Story of Light Entertainment

(Self)

Cilla's Comedy Six

Cilla's World Of Comedy

The Brit Girls

(Self (archive footage))

Cilla

(Self)

Disco

(Self)

An Audience with...

(Self)

The Ed Sullivan Show

(Self)

Wogan

(Self)

The Two Ronnies

Room 101

(Self)

Christmas Night with the Stars

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

(Self - Host)

Through the Keyhole

(Self - Panelist)

Parkinson

(Self)

Loose Women

(Self)

The Friday Night Project

(Self - Host)