Esma Cannon
- Acting
- December 27, 1905 · Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- October 18, 1972
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
Filmography
- What's a Carry On? · Bridget Madderley (archive footage) (uncredited)
- That's Carry On! · Miss Cooling / Bridget Madderley (archive footage)
- Hide and Seek · Tea Lady
- Carry On Cabby · Flo Sims
- We Joined the Navy · Consul's Wife
- Nurse on Wheels · Mrs. Jones
- The Fast Lady · Lady on Zebra Crossing
- On the Beat · Mrs. Timms
- In the Doghouse · Mrs. Raikes
- Carry On Cruising · Bridget Madderley
- Stryker of the Yard
- Over the Odds · Alice
- The Rag Trade
- What a Carve Up! · Aunt Emily
- Raising the Wind · Mrs. Deevens
- Carry On Regardless · Miss Cooling
- No Kidding · District Nurse
- Maigret
- Doctor in Love · Rafia Woman (uncredited)
- Carry On Constable · Deaf Old Lady
- The Flesh and the Fiends · Aggie
- Inn for Trouble · Dolly
- Expresso Bongo · Nightclub Cleaner
- I'm All Right Jack · Spencer
- Jack the Ripper · Nelly
- Further Up the Creek · Maudie Lovelace
- Three Men in a Boat · Meek Woman (Maze)
- A Touch of the Sun · Miss Tickle
- Sailor Beware · Edie Hornett
- Simon and Laura · Laura from Newcastle
- Out of the Clouds · Rich Woman's Companion
- The Sleeping Tiger · Scrubwoman with ladder
- Trouble in Store · Café Customer (uncredited)
- The Large Rope · Screaming Woman
- The Steel Key · Patient in Doctor's Waiting Room
- Noose for a Lady · Miss Ginch
- Crow Hollow · Aunt Judith Armour
- Last Holiday · Miss Fox
- Double Confession · Madam Cleo
- Guilt Is My Shadow · Peggy
- Helter Skelter · Autograph Huntress (uncredited)
- Marry Me · Pleasant Little Woman (uncredited)
- The Huggetts Abroad · Brown Owl
- Vote for Huggett · (uncredited)
- Here Come the Huggetts · Youth Leader
- Jassy · Lindy Wicks
- Holiday Camp · Elsie Dawson
- The Years Between · Effie
- A Canterbury Tale · Agnes
- English Without Tears · Queenie
- The Way Ahead · Mrs. Ted Brewer
- Fanny by Gaslight · Maid (uncredited)
- The Young Mr. Pitt · Servant at Lord Auckland's
- Asking for Trouble · Ada
- We Serve
- Quiet Wedding · (uncredited)
- Contraband · Erik Skold's Niece
- The Spy in Black · Maggie
- Poison Pen · Mrs Warren
- I Met a Murderer · A Hiker
- Trouble Brewing · Maid
- The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
- It's in the Air · Sir Philip's Maid
- I See Ice · Bride
- The Five Pound Man · Lucy
- The Man Behind the Mask · Waitress