Christopher Chittell

Acting

Christopher Chittell

Born 1948-05-19 · Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

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 40 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 under the name 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.

Acting credits

The Wild Geese poster
6.8

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

The Wild Geese

1978

To Sir, with Love poster
7.4

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.

To Sir, with Love

1967

Zulu Dawn poster
6.1

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Zulu Dawn

1979

The Last Valley poster
6.5

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.

The Last Valley

1971

The Charge of the Light Brigade poster
6.2

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968

The Beast in the Cellar poster
4.8

Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sisters realise they might understand what's happening.

The Beast in the Cellar

1971

Golden Rendezvous poster
5.5

First Officer John Carter is aboard a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists who plan to steal gold bullion from a U.S. Treasury ship, using a nuclear bomb as leverage

Golden Rendezvous

1977

The Raging Moon poster
6.5

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.

The Raging Moon

1971

Emmerdale: 50 Unforgettable Years poster
NR

Celebrating 50 years of Emmerdale, telling the story of how a sleepy daytime afternoon series about rural folk became the award-winning, ratings-busting, peak-time drama that it is today. With a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes secrets and anecdotes, the cast remembers key moments from the last five decades.

Emmerdale: 50 Unforgettable Years

2022

Emmerdale: Revenge poster
8.0

Roy is a little too quick to accept Pollard's generous offer of a trip to London. It soon becomes clear they both have ulterior motives. Just what shady deal is Pollard cooking up this time, and who is the mystery man Roy is obsessed with finding? Meanwhile Kathy intends to enjoy her prize weekend away but her wild plans are hampered when she finds herself chaperoned by the well-meaning Marlon. Will he let her appreciate the bright city lights to the full or will he stifle the aroma of romance which lingers in the air? A relaxing weekend of fun becomes a matter of life and death as they are drawn into an intriguing web of deceit and extreme danger. Suddenly life in Yorkshire begins to seem little more than a distant and happy memory as ghosts from the past haunt the present and death lurks around every corner.

Emmerdale: Revenge

1998

Game for Vultures poster
5.2

The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.

Game for Vultures

1979

The Breaking of Bumbo poster
4.7

The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in the Swinging Sixties. He regards his social life as important as his military.

The Breaking of Bumbo

1970

The Weekend Murders poster
6.1

An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...

The Weekend Murders

1970

They Call Him Cemetery poster
6.3

John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a member of a gang of extortionists. Fortunately, a mysterious roving gunfighter decides to help the guys out of their jam.

They Call Him Cemetery

1971

The Intruders poster
3.2

When a young hippie couple enters an upper-class mansion, a carousel of sex and misunderstandings awaits.

The Intruders

1975

Corriedale: Backstage Pass poster
NR

Corriedale behind the scenes fun, exclusive interviews and a few surprises along the way.

Corriedale: Backstage Pass

2026

Erotic Inferno poster
3.0

Brothers Martin and Paul Barnard are summoned to the family home after their father’s death, but they’re not allowed in the house until the reading of the will. They stay in the cottage occupied by their father’s servants, Adam and Nicole.

Erotic Inferno

1975

A Night Out poster
NR

Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night out" with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.

A Night Out

1967

The Best Pair of Legs in the Business poster
8.0

A dull vacation at a holiday camp becomes interesting when the holidaying teenagers bump into 'Sherry', a female impersonator.

The Best Pair of Legs in the Business

1968

Molly poster
6.6

Molly is in love with Peter. Peter is living a dangerous, violent and depraved upper class life. Peters brother Robin is in love with Molly.

Molly

1977

Practice Makes Perfect poster
5.5

Cousin George, a rather oafish dolt, more shy than stupid, needing assistance in learning about sex. Charles Canyon conducts the crash course that consists primarily of voyeuristic observation. Darby Llyd Rain plays a woman on the farm.

Practice Makes Perfect

1977