Erik Chitty
Erik Chitty (8 July 1907 in Dover, Kent[1] – 22 July 1977 Brent, Middlesex[2]), was an English stage, film and television actor.[3][4][5]
Erik Chitty | |
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Born | |
Died | 22 July 1977 70) | (aged
Alma mater | RADA |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1937-1977 |
Spouse(s) | Hester Bevan |
Children |
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Early life
Chitty was the son of a flour miller, Frederick Walter Chitty and his wife Ethel Elsie Assistance née Franklin; they married in 1902. He attended Dover College and Jesus College, Cambridge where he was one of the founders of the Cambridge University Mummers, before training at RADA and becoming a professional actor.[6] He then ran his own repertory company in Frinton-on-Sea.
Career
Early television (1936–1939)
Chitty was an early player in the fledgling BBC television, which started in November 1936 until it was closed at the beginning of the War.
A most lamentable comedy by William Shakespeare | |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Producer | Jan Bussell |
Bottom | Wilfrid Walter |
Quince | Charles Lefeaux |
Flute | Don Gemell |
Snout | Erik Chitty |
Snug | Herbert Lees |
Starveling | Hubert Leslie |
Theseus | John Rudling |
Philostrate | Kenneth Villiers |
Hippolyta | Jillian Sandilands |
Author | W. S. Gilbert |
Producer | Jan Bussell |
Guildenstern | Erik Chitty |
Rosencrantz | Leonard Sachs |
Hamlet | Peter Ridgeway |
Ophelia | Alexis France |
King Claudius | Graham Clifford |
Queen Gertrude | Madge Brindley |
First Player | Connaught Stanleigh |
Second Player | Ethne Wall |
Author | Luigi Pirandello |
Translator | Edward Storer |
Producer | Dallas Bower |
Henry IV | Ernest Milton |
Marchioness Matilda Spina | Cecilie Burne |
Frida, her daughter | Valerie Hobson |
The Marquis Charles di Nolli | Denis Blakelock |
The Baron Tito Belcredi | Anthony Ireland |
Dr. Dionysius Genoni | Bromley Davenport |
Harold | Douglas Matthews |
Landolph | Patrick Ludlow |
Ordulph | Jack Lambert |
Berthold | Basil Langton |
John | Harding Steerman |
Valets | Erik Chitty Stuart Latham |
Author : | Reginald Berkeley |
Production | Royston Morley |
Diane van Eysen | Antoinette Cellier |
Deputy Chief-of-Staff | A. R. Whatmore |
Sergeant Major Lewis Gun Sergeant | Edward Lexy |
The Chancellor | Harold Scott |
Captain Luttrell | William Hutchison |
Commander-in-Chief | Bernard Miles |
Charles van Eysen | Eric Powley |
Private Waters Private Cossington | Ivor Barnard |
Trooper of Uhlans Sergeant Harvey | George Woodbridge |
Jacques van Eysen Private Mason A British Soldier | Ben Wright |
Trooper of Uhlans Orderly Linesman | Erik Chitty |
Chief-of-Staff Stretcher-Bearer A British Soldier | Richard George |
Trooper of Uhlans Lieutenant Barrington Lewis Gunner | Peter Ashmore |
Captain Braithwaite A British Soldier | Claude Bailey |
Staff Colonel Artillery Liaison Officer Williams | George Bishop |
Officer of Uhlans | Hans Wengraf |
Aide-de-Camp Second Lieutenant Matheson | Peter Scott |
American Doctor | Frank Thornton-Bassett |
Sentry A British Soldier | Alex McCrindle |
Violet Cording | Jean Winstanley |
Madame van Eysen | Mary Hinton |
Kitchen Maid Army Nursing Sister | Yvonne Sinclair |
The Voice | Ivan Samson |
And with the co-operation of members of the 53rd (London) Medium Brigade, R.A., T.A., and the 7th Bn. the Middlesex Regiment, T.A. | |
Music from : | Sibelius's Second Symphony |
Verse from the works of : | Cecil Day Lewis Wilfred Owen T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden Ezra Pound |
Scene 1 : The dining-room of the White Chateau, August, 1914 2 : The same, December, 1914 3 : A trench in the grounds of the White Chateau, 1917 4 : The ruins of the White Chateau, 1918 5 : A hospital, 1918 6 : The garden of the White Chateau, 1919 |
A romance by John Pudney | |
Writer | John Pudney |
Production | Royston Morley |
Edna | Josephine Wilson |
George | Maurice Denham |
Fanny | Agnes Lauchlan |
Clara | Dorothy Black |
Ruth | Lucy Sibley |
Cousin Sid | Erik Chitty |
Mrs Gussett | Dora Gregory |
The Lawyer | Charles Maunsell |
The Announcer | Stuart Latham |
Neighbours | Kathleen Edwardes Phyllis Morris |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Incidental Music Arranged by | Jean Sibelius Hyam Greenbaum |
Decor | Malcolm Baker |
Dancers | Members of the London Ballet |
Dancers directed by | Antony Tudor |
Musicians Leader Conductor | BBC Television Orchestra Boris Pecker Hyam Greenbaum |
Production | Dallas Bower |
Alonso | Alan Wheatley |
Sebastian | Oliver Burt |
Prospero | John Abbott |
Antonio | Basil C. Langton |
Ferdinand | Richard Ainley |
Gonzalo | John Turnbull |
Adrian | Stuart Latham |
Francisco | Graham Payn |
Caliban | George Devine |
Trinculo | Richard Goolden |
Stephano | Charles Farrell |
Ship's Master | Dennis Price |
Boatswain | Erik Chitty |
Miranda | Peggy Ashcroft |
Ariel | Stephen Haggard |
Iris | Vera Lindsay |
Author | Jean-Jacques Bernard |
Translator from French | J. Leslie Frith |
Producer | Royston Morley |
Decor | Malcolm Baker-Smith |
Music | Sibelius |
Marceline | Catherine Lacey |
Philip | Percy Marmont |
Antoine | Stafford Byrne |
Robert | Andrew Osborn |
Lemesle | Peter Scott |
Emile | Reginald Beckwith |
Hall Porter | Erik Chitty |
Ida | Miriam Adams |
Fanny | Nina Evans |
Being the acting version of Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew', prepared for his own use by David Garrick in 1754 | |
Writer | William Shakespeare |
Incidental Music | James Hartley |
Costumes | Elizabeth Haffenden |
Production | Dallas Bower |
Petruchio | Austin Trevor |
Hortensio | Alan Wheatley |
Grumio | Ivor Barnard |
Katharine | Margaretta Scott |
Baptista | Ben Webster |
Bianca | Vera Lindsay |
Biondello | Stuart Latham |
Curtis | David Keir |
Nathaniel | Will Leighton |
Joseph | Frank Parkington |
Nicholas | Cyprian Bridge |
Philip | William Dickinson |
A Tailor | Erik Chitty |
A revolutionary romancelet by G. Bernard Shaw | |
Writer | G. Bernard Shaw |
Production | Dallas Bower |
Stammfest | Erik Chitty |
Schneidekind | Alan Wheatley |
Annajanska | Vera Lindsay |
Two soldiers | Cyprian Bridge William Dickinson |
Author | Horton Giddy |
Producer | Denis Johnston |
General Yagunin | Brefni O'Rorke |
Colonel Ilyitch | Frank Thornton-Bassett |
Brunov | Erik Chitty |
Orderly | Stuart Latham |
1946 onwards
His television credits included a major role as the aged "Mr. Smith" in Please Sir!, and multiple appearances in Dad's Army, Raffles, Doctor Who, Danger Man, Maigret, Man About the House and The Goodies.[18][4] He appeared in the TV musical Pickwick for the BBC in 1969.[19]
Personal life
Chitty was married to the former actress Hester Bevan and had two daughters and one son. He was also a keen genealogist.[20]
Filmography
- Contraband (1940) – Cloakroom attendant (uncredited)
- Oliver Twist (1948) – Workhouse Board member (uncredited)
- Forbidden (1949) – Schofield
- All Over the Town (1949) – Frobisher
- Your Witness (1950) – Judge's clerk
- Chance of a Lifetime (1950) – Silas Pike
- Circle of Danger (1951) - Box-office clerk (uncredited)
- John Wesley (1954) – Trustee of Georgia
- Time Is My Enemy (1954) – Ballistics expert
- Raising a Riot (1955) – Mr Buttons (uncredited)
- Footsteps in the Fog (1955) – Hedges
- Windfall (1955) – (uncredited)
- After the Ball (1957) – Waiter
- Zoo Baby (1957) – Vulture man
- Left Right and Centre (1959) – Deputy returning officer
- The Devil's Disciple (1959) – Uncle Titus
- The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) – Gudgeon (uncredited)
- Not a Hope in Hell (1960) – Joe
- Raising the Wind (1961) – Elderly Man at concert
- Follow That Man (1961) – Doctor
- First Men in the Moon (1964) – Gibbs, Cavor's hired man (uncredited)
- The Horror of It All (1964) – Grandpa Marley
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) – Old Soldier
- Casino Royale (1967) – Sir James Bond's butler (uncredited)
- Bedazzled (1967) – Seed – Sir Stanley Moon's butler (uncredited)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) – Priest (uncredited)
- Arthur? Arthur! (1969) – Uncle Ratty
- A Nice Girl Like Me (1969) – Vicar
- Twinky (1969) – Lawyer's elderly client
- Song of Norway (1970) – Helsted
- The Railway Children (1970) – Photographer
- Lust for a Vampire (1971) – Professor Herz
- The Statue (1971) – Mouser
- Please Sir! (1971) – Mr Smith
- The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) – Mr Claverton
- The Vault of Horror (1973) – Old waiter (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
- Op de Hollandse toer (1973) – Mr Molenaar
- The Flying Sorcerer (1973) – Sir Roger
- Fall of Eagles (1974) - Hertling, German Chancellor
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) – Museum guard
- The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) – Sam (uncredited)
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) – The butler
- Jabberwocky (1977) – Second door-opener / Servant (uncredited)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977) – Organist
References
- GRO Register of Births: SEP 1907 2a 1113 / 1713 DOVER - Erik Chitty
- GRO Register of Deaths: SEP 1977 11 0672 BRENT - Erik Chitty, born 8 July 1907
- "Erik Chitty - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- "Erik Chitty".
- "Erik Chitty". www.aveleyman.com.
- Fabrique. "Eric Chitty — RADA". www.rada.ac.uk.
- Radio Times (28 January 1938), Pyramus And Thisbe, 58, BBC Television, p. 16
- Radio Times (2 March 1938), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, 58, BBC Television, p. 18
- Radio Times (22 March 1938), Henry IV, 58, BBC Television, p. 17
- Radio Times (11 November 1938), The White Chateau, 61, BBC Television, p. 18
- Radio Times (27 January 1939), Edna's Fruit Hat, 62, BBC Television, p. 17
- Radio Times (3 February 1939), The Tempest, 62, BBC Television, p. 12
- Radio Times (3 March 1939), The Unquiet Spirit, 62, BBC Television, p. 16
- Radio Times (12 April 1939), Katharine and Petruchio, 63, BBC Television, p. 17
- Radio Times (2 May 1939), Annajanska, The Bolsjevik Empress, 63, BBC Television, p. 15
- Radio Times (12 May 1939), The Advantages of Paternity, 63, BBC Television, p. 15
- The Advantages of Paternity (1939) on IMDb
- McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). "The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
- "Pickwick (1969)".
- "Chitty of London: genealogy and family history". chittyoflondon.awardspace.co.uk.
External links
- Erik Chitty on IMDb
- Erik Chitty – BBC Guide to Comedy
- Erik Chitty – Movies.com website