Chatto is a great-grandson of
Andrew Chatto (1840–1913) the founder of the publishers
Chatto and Windus. According to a
London Palladium souvenir brochure from a 1970 production of
Aladdin, he was trained at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. During the war he was commissioned in the
Indian Army. After the war he maintained the family interest in books and became a director of the firm of booksellers
Pickering and Chatto. Chatto appeared mostly in films, including
Oscar Wilde (1960) in which he played the Clerk of Arraigns. He appeared in the 1969
Guy Hamilton film
Battle of Britain. His work in the theatre includes ''
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, My Fair Lady, Number 10
, The Young Visiters and Hushabye
. In 1969 he appeared with Tommy Steele and Mary Hopkin in Dick Whittington at The London Palladium and in 1970 was The Emperor of China in Aladdin with Cilla Black, Alfred Marks and Leslie Crowther, and with Alec Guinness in the play Time out of Mind''. He appeared on TV in
Honey Lane,
The Cedar Tree,
The Expert,
Happy Ever After, and as Sergeant Grimshaw in
Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House. He had a minor role in the pilot episode of
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in 1969 in the episode, "
My Late Lamented Friend and Partner". ==Marriage==