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Cilla Black
Vauxhall, Liverpool, England, UK
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 W…
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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.
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2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Burt Bacharach at the BBC
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
If These Walls Could Sing
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Our Cilla: The One and Only
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Cilla at the BBC
Movie Self - Performer
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2013
Through the Keyhole
TV show Self - Panelist
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2012
Produced by George Martin
Movie Self
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2012
Keith Lemon's LemonAid
TV show Self - Guest
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2011
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Movie Self
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2010
The Day John Lennon Died
Movie Self
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2009
...Sings the Beatles
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
TV show Self
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2009
Feast
TV show
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2009
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
TV show Self
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2008
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
TV show
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2007
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
TV show Self
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2007
Benidorm
TV show
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2007
Al Murray's Happy Hour
TV show
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2006
The One Show
TV show Self
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2006
The Story of Light Entertainment
TV show Self
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2006
Eating With...
TV show
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2005
The Friday Night Project
TV show Self - Host
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2004
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air
Movie Self
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2004
The Paul O'Grady Show
TV show
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2004
Parkinson
TV show Self - Guest
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2004
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Movie Self
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2001
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Loose Women
TV show Self
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1998
The Moment of Truth
TV show
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1998
So Graham Norton
TV show Self
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1998
Parkinson
TV show Self
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1998
The Abbey Road Story
Movie Self
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1997
The Brit Girls
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1996
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV show Self - Host
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1994
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck
Movie Self - Audience Member
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1994
Room 101
TV show Self
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1993
The Ark
Movie Self
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1993
Live & Kicking
TV show Self
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1985
Blind Date
TV show
