Christopher Chittell

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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.

Most Popular Christopher Chittell Trailers

Total trailers found: 19

The Breaking of Bumbo Trailer (1970)

28 September 1970

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.

The Raging Moon Trailer (1971)

21 January 1971

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

Zulu Dawn Trailer (1979)

14 May 1979

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

The Beast in the Cellar Trailer (1971)

14 April 1971

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 Wild Geese Trailer (1978)

28 June 1978

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.

The Last Valley Trailer (1971)

28 January 1971

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.

To Sir, with Love Trailer (1967)

14 June 1967

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.

They Call Him Cemetery Trailer (1971)

23 September 1971

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

Erotic Inferno Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

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.

Emmerdale: Revenge Trailer (1998)

20 November 1998

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.

The Charge of the Light Brigade Trailer (1968)

10 April 1968

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 Best Pair of Legs in the Business Trailer (1968)

28 December 1968

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

Game for Vultures Trailer (1979)

25 June 1979

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

Golden Rendezvous Trailer (1977)

01 December 1977

First Officer John Carter is aboard a cruise ship hijacked by terrorists who plan to steal gold bullion from a U.

The Intruders Trailer (1975)

02 July 1975

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

A Night Out Trailer (1967)

13 February 1967

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.

The Weekend Murders Trailer (1970)

15 October 1970

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.

Corriedale: Backstage Pass Trailer (2026)

05 January 2026

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

Emmerdale: 50 Unforgettable Years Trailer (2022)

16 October 2022

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.