Esma Cannon

Born: 1905-12-27, Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Died: 1972-10-18

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.

Filmography

• Poison Pen (1939)
• Crow Hollow (1952)
• The Way Ahead (1944)
• Carry On Constable (1960)
• I'm All Right Jack (1959)
• Carry On Regardless (1961)
• The Large Rope (1953)
• Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
• Carry On Cabby (1963)
• The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
• On the Beat (1962)
• English Without Tears (1944)
• Carry On Cruising (1962)
• Simon and Laura (1955)
• Out of the Clouds (1955)
• The Spy in Black (1939)
• A Canterbury Tale (1944)
• We Joined the Navy (1963)
• The Fast Lady (1962)
• No Kidding (1960)
• The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
• Nurse on Wheels (1963)
• The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
• What a Carve Up! (1961)
• Holiday Camp (1947)
• The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
• What's a Carry On? (1998)
• That's Carry On! (1977)
• Further Up the Creek (1958)
• Trouble in Store (1953)