Christopher Chittell
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Wild Geese
as Philips 1978
Zulu Dawn
as Lt. Milne 1979
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Trooper 1968
The Last Valley
as Svenson 1971
The Beast in the Cellar
as Baker 1971
The Weekend Murders
as Georgie Kemple 1970
The Raging Moon
as Terry 1971
They Call Him Cemetery
as John McIntire 1971
Golden Rendezvous
as Rogers 1977
Molly
as Peter 1977
Game for Vultures
as McAllister 1979
Erotic Inferno
as Martin Barnard 1975
The Intruders
as Richard, the Intruder 1975
The Breaking of Bumbo
as The Prisoner 1970
Practice Makes Perfect
as Richard 1977
Corriedale
as Eric Pollard 2026