Christopher Chittell

Born: 1948-05-19

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.


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To Sir, with Love

as Potter
Released: 1967-06-14

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where...

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The Wild Geese

as Philips
Released: 1978-06-28

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Trooper
Released: 1968-04-10

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led...

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The Last Valley

as Svenson
Released: 1971-01-28

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating...

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Zulu Dawn

as Lt. Milne
Released: 1979-05-14

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

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Golden Rendezvous

as Rogers
Released: 1977-12-25

Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero...

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A Bullet for a Stranger

as John McIntire
Released: 1971-09-23

John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to...

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The Raging Moon

as Terry
Released: 1971-01-21

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence...

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The Weekend Murders

as Georgie Kemple
Released: 1970-10-15

An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are...

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Game for Vultures

as McAllister
Released: 1979-06-25

The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to...

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The Intruders

as Richard, the Intruder
Released: 1975-07-02

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

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The Beast in the Cellar

as Baker
Released: 1970-08-01

Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he...

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The Breaking of Bumbo

as The Prisoner
Released: 1970-09-28

The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is...

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A Night Out

as Horne
Released: 1967-02-13

Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night...

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Erotic Inferno

as Martin Barnard
Released: 1976-06-01

Brothers Martin and Paul Barnard are summoned to the family home after their father’s death, but...

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Emmerdale: Revenge

as Eric Pollard
Released: 1998-11-20

Roy is a little too quick to accept Pollard's generous offer of a trip to London. It soon...

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Molly

as Peter
Released: 1977-04-11

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

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Practice Makes Perfect

as Richard
Released: 1977-09-26

Cousin George, a rather oafish dolt, more shy than stupid, needing assistance in learning about...

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Emmerdale

as Eric Pollard
First aired: 1972-10-16

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby...

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The Avengers

as Bassin
First aired: 1961-01-07

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr....

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The Tomorrow People

as Chris
First aired: 1973-04-30

Born to human parents, an apparently normal child might at some point between childhood and late...

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Doomwatch

as Dick Burns
First aired: 1970-02-09

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on...

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Tucker's Luck

as 'Junior'
First aired: 1983-03-10

Tucker's Luck was a British television series made by the BBC between 1983 and 1985. The series...

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