
Christopher Chittell
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.386 |
Birthday | 1948-05-19 |
Place of Birth | Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Charles Canyon, Chris Chittel, Christopher John Chittell, Christopher Chitell, |

1998

Emmerdale: Revenge
0/0
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 sha...
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Emmerdale: Revenge

1975

Erotic Inferno
1/1
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...
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Erotic Inferno

1979

Zulu Dawn
6.1/103
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Zulu Dawn

1968

The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
0/0
A dull vacation at a holiday camp becomes interesting when the holidaying teenagers bump into 'Sherry', a female impersonator.
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The Best Pair of Legs in the Business

1978

The Wild Geese
6.831/261
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and s...
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The Wild Geese

1968

The Charge of the Light Brigade
6.1/65
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamo...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade

1971

The Last Valley
6.6/53
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 sol...
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The Last Valley

1979

Game for Vultures
4.4/5
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
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Game for Vultures

1970

The Beast in the Cellar
4.7/30
Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...
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The Beast in the Cellar

1967

To Sir, with Love
7.5/317
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...
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To Sir, with Love

1970

The Breaking of Bumbo
2/1
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...
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The Breaking of Bumbo

1971

They Call Him Cemetery
6/14
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...
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They Call Him Cemetery

1977

Golden Rendezvous
4.9/8
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero when the floating casino on which he works is hijacke...
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Golden Rendezvous

1977

Molly
7.5/6
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.
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Molly

1977

Practice Makes Perfect
4/1
Cousin George, a rather oafish dolt, more shy than stupid, needing assistance in learning about sex. Charles Canyon conducts the crash course that con...
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Practice Makes Perfect

1975

The Intruders
2/1
When a young hippie couple enters an upper-class mansion, a carousel of sex and misunderstandings awaits.
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The Intruders

1971

The Raging Moon
6.5/16
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 h...
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The Raging Moon

1970

The Weekend Murders
6/24
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 Barbar...
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The Weekend Murders

1967

A Night Out
0/0
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.
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