Esma Cannon
Acting

Esma Cannon

Born 27 December 1905 · Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Died 18 October 1972

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

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