Cast & creator
Cilla Black
Best known for Top of the Pops, The One Show, Loose Women
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.
Also known as: Priscilla Maria Veronica White
25
film credits
42
television credits
66
1948–2023 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (67)
Showing 67 of 67 credits
Top of the Pops
Self
1964
The One Show
Self
2006
Loose Women
Self
1999
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Self - Host
1996
Wogan
Self
1982
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Parkinson
Self
1998
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
An Audience with...
Self
1978The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
2007
Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004
Benidorm
2007
Room 101
Self
1994
The Two Ronnies
1971
Shindig!
Self - Singer
1964
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Self
2009
So Graham Norton
Self
1998
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
Self
2009
Disco
Self
1971
The Goodies
1970
Surprise, Surprise
Self - Presenter
1984
Live & Kicking
Self
1993
Through the Keyhole
Self - Panelist
2013
Ready Steady Go!
Self
1963
Cilla
Self
1968
Blind Date
1985
Seaside Special
19754-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
Self
1966
The Story of Light Entertainment
Self
2006
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
Keith Lemon's LemonAid
Self - Guest
2012
If These Walls Could Sing
Self (archive footage)
2022Al Murray's Happy Hour
2007TV Intim
Self
1969
Christmas Night with the Stars
1958
Cilla's World Of Comedy
1976
Cilla's Comedy Six
1975
Produced by George Martin
Self
2012Feast
2009
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
Self
1965
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Self
2002
The Day John Lennon Died
Self
2010The Moment of Truth
1998
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Self
2011
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Betty Dorrick
1968
The Abbey Road Story
Self
1998
Alfie Darling
Theme Song Performance
1975
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023The World Of Cilla
1973
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve
Self
1983
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Self (archive footage)
2004
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2023
Our Cilla: The One and Only
Self (archive footage)
2021
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Cilla Black
1965Eating With...
2006
The Brit Girls
Self (archive footage)
1997
The Ark
Self
1993
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
Self - Audience Member
1994
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
Self (archive footage)
2001
...Sings the Beatles
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Frankie Howerd Show
Self
1968
60s Legends in Concert
Self
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
Self
2004
Cilla in Scandinavia
Self
1971
Cilla at the BBC
Self - Performer
2015
The Friday Night Project
Self - Host
2005
Cilla at the Savoy
Self
1966