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