Esma Cannon
Acting
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.
As actor 66
Maigret
1960
The Rag Trade
1961
Stryker of the Yard
1961
The Large Rope
1953
The Way Ahead
1944
Carry On Regardless
1961
Crow Hollow
1952
Last Holiday
1950
Carry On Constable
1960
That's Carry On!
1977
We Joined the Navy
1963
No Kidding
1960
Helter Skelter
1949
I'm All Right Jack
1959
Fanny by Gaslight
1944
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942
Poison Pen
1939
Carry On Cabby
1963
The Fast Lady
1962
Noose for a Lady
1953
Carry On Cruising
1962
Sailor Beware
1956
Contraband
1940
The Spy in Black
1939
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960
It's in the Air
1938
Jack the Ripper
1959
What a Carve Up!
1961
Doctor in Love
1960
A Canterbury Tale
1944
Nurse on Wheels
1963
The Sleeping Tiger
1954
Holiday Camp
1947
On the Beat
1962
Asking for Trouble
1942
Simon and Laura
1955
Further Up the Creek
1958
Trouble in Store
1953
Three Men in a Boat
1956
Raising the Wind
1961
English Without Tears
1944
A Touch of the Sun
1956
The Steel Key
1953
Marry Me
1949
The Man Behind the Mask
1936
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
1939
Out of the Clouds
1955
Expresso Bongo
1959
Trouble Brewing
1939
I See Ice
1938
Inn for Trouble
1960
In the Doghouse
1962
Jassy
1947
Quiet Wedding
1941
Double Confession
1950
What's a Carry On?
1998
The Huggetts Abroad
1949
Vote for Huggett
1949
Here Come the Huggetts
1948
The Years Between
1946
Hide and Seek
1964
I Met a Murderer
1939
We Serve
1942
Guilt Is My Shadow
1950
Over the Odds
1961
The Five Pound Man
1937