Cliff Richard

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1940-10-14 (84 years old)

Place of Birth Lucknow, India

Also Known As Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Cliff Richard OBE, Harry Rodger Webb

Cliff Richard

Biography

Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an English singer who holds both British and Barbadian citizenship. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Presley and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song. In the early 1960s, he had a prosperous screen career with films including The Young Ones, Summer Holiday and Wonderful Life and his own television show at the BBC. Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image, and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music. In a career spanning nearly 65 years, Richard has amassed several gold and platinum discs and awards, including two Ivor Novello Awards and three Brit Awards. More than 130 of his singles, albums, and EPs have reached the UK Top 20, more than any other artist. Richard has had 67 UK top ten singles, the second highest total for an artist (behind Presley). He holds the record, with Presley, as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK No. 1 singles, and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in each of five consecutive decades. He also had four UK Christmas No. 1 singles, two of which were as a solo artist; "Mistletoe and Wine" and "Saviour's Day". Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has never achieved the same popularity in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling "Devil Woman" and "We Don't Talk Anymore". In Canada, he had a successful period in the early 1960s, the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some releases certified gold and platinum. He has remained a popular music, film, and television personality at home in the UK as well as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Europe and Asia, and retains a following in other countries. When not touring, he divides his time between Barbados and Portugal. In 2019, he relocated to New York. Cliff Richard was born Harry Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940 at King George's Hospital (now KGMU Hospital), Victoria Street, in Lucknow, which was then part of British India. His parents were Rodger Oscar Webb, a manager for a catering contractor that serviced the Indian Railways, and the former Dorothy Marie Dazely. His parents also spent some years in Howrah, West Bengal. After the violence of Direct Action Day, they decided to relocate to England permanently. Richard is primarily of English heritage, but he had one great-grandmother who was of half Welsh and half Spanish descent, born of a Spanish great-great-grandmother named Emiline Joseph Rebeiro. ... Source: Article "Cliff Richard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Actor

2022
2020
Sir Cliff Richard at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2020
2015
Our Cilla

as Self

2012
2012
2011
OK! TV

as Self

2008
CelebAir

as Self

2007
2006
2006
Doctor Who: Origins

as Self (archive footage)

2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

2006
The One Show

as Self

2006
2005
2004
Live Aid

as Self

2004
Hank Marvin: Hank Plays Live

as Self - Guest Appearance

2004
The Downing Street Patient

as Self (Archive Footage)

2002
Top Gear

as Self

2001
1999
Heathcliff

as Heathcliff

1997
1994
Zona+

as Próprio

1994
Brisant

as Self

1991
Musik liegt in der Luft

as Self - Singer

1991
DAS!

as Self

1991
1988
Flitterabend

as Self - Singer

1987
Going Live!

as Self

1985
Live Aid

as Self

1984
1982
Wogan

as Self

1982
1981
1981
Astro-Show

as self

1980
Blue Suede Shoes

as Self (archive footage)

1980
Solid Gold

as Self

1976
1975
1975
Système 2

as Self

1973
Take Me High

as Tim Matthews

1972
Musikladen

as Self

1971
Disco

as Self

1970
His Land

as Self

1968
A Matter of Diamonds

as Riley Walker

1968
Starparade

as Self

1968
Cilla

as Self

1967
Two A Penny

as Jamie Hopkins

1967
Europarty

as Self

1966
Thunderbirds Are GO

as Cliff Richard Jr. (voice)

1966
1964
Wonderful Life

as Johnnie

1964
1964
1964
1963
1961
The Young Ones

as Nicholas 'Nicky' Black

1961
1959
Expresso Bongo

as Bert Rudge / Bongo Herbert

1959
Serious Charge

as Curley Thompson

1958
Oh Boy!

as Self

1956
Eurovision Song Contest

as Self - United Kingdom Entry

1952
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self - Singer

Writer