Christopher Chittell
Date of birth: 1948-05-19
Place of birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Charles Canyon, Chris Chittel, Christopher John Chittell, Christopher Chitell
Biography
Chris Chittell is an English actor, best known for his role as Eric Pollard in ITV's Emmerdale, a part that he has played since 1986. He is now the longest serving character having played Pollard for 31 years and, in 2016, Chittell married Emmerdale co-star Lesley Dunlop. He had previously been married to Caroline Hunt, with whom he has two children with. From 1968 to 1973 he had a lead role in the TV series The Freewheelers. His films include To Sir, With Love, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Zulu Dawn, Golden Rendezvous, A Game For Vultures, The Last Valley, The Beast in the Cellar, The Raging Moon and The Weekend Murders. He also has uncredited roles in If... and The Wild Geese, and appeared in a number of Swedish sex films in the 1970s as Charles Canyon. These include Swedish Sex Games (aka The Intruders and Let Us Play Sex) in 1975 (which also featured a young Stellan Skarsgård), and Sex in Sweden and Practice Makes Perfect (aka Girl on Her Knees) in 1977.
Movie Credits
Emmerdale: Revenge
1998-11-20
Roy is a little too quick to accept Pollard's generous offer of a trip to London. It soon becomes cl
Erotic Inferno
1975-01-01
Brothers Martin and Paul Barnard are summoned to the family home after their father’s death, but the
Zulu Dawn
1979-05-14
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
1968-12-28
A dull vacation at a holiday camp becomes interesting when the holidaying teenagers bump into 'Sherr
The Wild Geese
1978-06-28
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968-04-10
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by t
To Sir, with Love
1967-06-14
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his un
Golden Rendezvous
1977-12-25
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero whe
They Call Him Cemetery
1971-09-23
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see
The Breaking of Bumbo
1970-09-28
The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in
The Beast in the Cellar
1970-08-01
Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ..
The Last Valley
1971-01-28
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Ye
Game for Vultures
1979-06-25
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. Th
Practice Makes Perfect
1977-09-26
Cousin George, a rather oafish dolt, more shy than stupid, needing assistance in learning about sex.
Molly
1977-04-11
Molly is in love with Peter. Peter is living a dangerous, violent and depraved upper class life. Pet
The Intruders
1975-07-02
When a young hippie couple enters an upper-class mansion, a carousel of sex and misunderstandings aw
The Raging Moon
1971-01-21
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence hom
The Weekend Murders
1970-10-15
An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismay
A Night Out
1967-02-13
Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night out