Esma Cannon

Esma Cannon (66)

1905-12-27 - 1972-10-18 | Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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.

On Movies

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

On Series

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