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.
Personal life[]
Chitty and former actress Hester Bevan married 1936, and they had two daughters and one son. He was also a keen genealogist.[7]
Television 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.
by Reginald Berkeley. With Antoinette Cellier,A.R. Whatmore,Edward Lexy,Harold Scott,William Hutchison,Bernard Miles,Eric Powley,Ivor Barnard,George Woodbridge,Ben Wright,Erik Chitty,Richard George,Peter Ashmore,Claude Bailey,George Bishop,Hans Wengraf,Peter Scott,Frank Thornton-Bassett,Alex McCrindle,Jean Winstanley,Mary Hinton,Yvonne Sinclair,and Ivan Samson. And with the co-operation of members of 53rd (London) Medium Brigade, R.A., T.A., and 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, and 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
