Esma Cannon
Born: 1905-12-27
Place of Birth: Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Esma Ellen Charlotte Littman, credited as Esme or Esma Cannon, was a diminutive (4 feet 7 inches) Australian-born character actress and comedian, who moved to Britain in the early 1930s. Although she frequently appeared on television in her latter years, Cannon is best known as a film actress, with a lengthy career in British productions from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Known For
The Steel Key
1953★ 6.1
Carry On Regardless
1961★ 6.2
No Kidding
1960★ 5.6
A Canterbury Tale
1944★ 6.9
Contraband
1940★ 7.1
Last Holiday
1950★ 7.1
Sailor Beware
1956★ 7.0
Poison Pen
1939★ 6.5
The Fast Lady
1962★ 5.7
Quiet Wedding
1941★ 5.0
On the Beat
1962★ 7.7
Helter Skelter
1949★ 6.2
Jassy
1947★ 5.4
What a Carve Up!
1961★ 6.9
The Large Rope
1953★ 5.5
A Touch of the Sun
1956★ 5.6
I'm All Right Jack
1959★ 6.6
Fanny by Gaslight
1944★ 5.2
Simon and Laura
1955★ 5.8
Three Men in a Boat
1956★ 6.3
Carry On Cruising
1962★ 6.1
Doctor in Love
1960★ 5.2
Crow Hollow
1952★ 5.8
I See Ice
1938★ 8.1
Jack the Ripper
1959★ 6.0
Raising the Wind
1961★ 6.2
We Joined the Navy
1963★ 5.6
The Way Ahead
1944★ 6.5
Vote for Huggett
1949★ 6.6
Noose for a Lady
1953★ 5.7
Carry On Cabby
1963★ 6.4
The Years Between
1946★ 6.2
It's in the Air
1938★ 5.7
That's Carry On!
1977★ 5.7
English Without Tears
1944★ 5.7
In the Doghouse
1962★ 5.9
Over the Odds
1961★ 0.0
Carry On Constable
1960★ 6.2
The Sleeping Tiger
1954★ 5.5
The Spy in Black
1939★ 6.4
The Huggetts Abroad
1949★ 6.6
Here Come the Huggetts
1948★ 6.5
Inn for Trouble
1960★ 6.5
Out of the Clouds
1955★ 5.8
Expresso Bongo
1959★ 5.1
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960★ 6.5
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942★ 5.7
Trouble in Store
1953★ 6.1
Marry Me
1949★ 4.3
What's a Carry On?
1998★ 7.8
Hide and Seek
1964★ 6.0
Holiday Camp
1947★ 6.6
Nurse on Wheels
1963★ 5.8
I Met a Murderer
1939★ 4.7
Further Up the Creek
1958★ 6.0
Trouble Brewing
1939★ 6.7
Double Confession
1950★ 6.0
Guilt Is My Shadow
1950★ 5.2
The Man Behind the Mask
1936★ 4.8