Esma Cannon
Born: 1905-12-27 in Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 1972-10-18
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1998
- What's a Carry On? as Bridget Madderley (archive footage) (uncredited)
1977
- That's Carry On! as Miss Cooling / Bridget Madderley (archive footage)
1964
- Hide and Seek as Tea Lady
1963
- Carry On Cabby as Flo Sims
- We Joined the Navy as Consul's Wife
- Nurse on Wheels as Mrs. Jones
1962
- The Fast Lady as Lady on Zebra Crossing
- On the Beat as Mrs. Timms
- Carry On Cruising as Bridget Madderley
- In the Doghouse as Mrs. Raikes
1961
- Carry On Regardless as Miss Cooling
- What a Carve Up! as Aunt Emily
- Raising the Wind as Mrs. Deevens
- Over the Odds as Alice
- The Rag Trade
- Stryker of the Yard
1960
- Maigret
- No Kidding as District Nurse
- Carry On Constable as Deaf Old Lady
- The Flesh and the Fiends as Aggie
- Doctor in Love as Rafia Woman (uncredited)
- Inn for Trouble as Dolly
1959
- Jack the Ripper as Nelly
- I'm All Right Jack as Spencer
- Expresso Bongo as Nightclub Cleaner
1958
- Further Up the Creek as Maudie Lovelace
1956
- Sailor Beware as Edie Hornett
- Three Men in a Boat as Meek Woman (Maze)
- A Touch of the Sun as Miss Tickle
1955
- Simon and Laura as Laura from Newcastle
- Out of the Clouds as Rich Woman's Companion
1954
- The Sleeping Tiger as Scrubwoman with ladder
1953
- The Steel Key as Patient in Doctor's Waiting Room
- Trouble in Store as Café Customer (uncredited)
- The Large Rope as Screaming Woman
- Noose for a Lady as Miss Ginch
1952
- Crow Hollow as Aunt Judith Armour
1950
- Guilt Is My Shadow as Peggy
- Last Holiday as Miss Fox
- Double Confession as Madam Cleo
1949
- The Huggetts Abroad as Brown Owl
- Vote for Huggett as (uncredited)
- Marry Me as Pleasant Little Woman (uncredited)
- Helter Skelter as Autograph Huntress (uncredited)
1948
- Here Come the Huggetts as Youth Leader
1947
- Jassy as Lindy Wicks
- Holiday Camp as Elsie Dawson
1946
- The Years Between as Effie
1944
- The Way Ahead as Mrs. Ted Brewer
- A Canterbury Tale as Agnes
- Fanny by Gaslight as Maid (uncredited)
- English Without Tears as Queenie
1942
- We Serve
- The Young Mr. Pitt as Servant at Lord Auckland's
- Asking for Trouble as Ada
1941
- Quiet Wedding as (uncredited)
1940
- Contraband as Erik Skold's Niece
1939
- Poison Pen as Mrs Warren
- Trouble Brewing as Maid
- The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
- I Met a Murderer as A Hiker
- The Spy in Black as Maggie
1938
- It's in the Air as Sir Philip's Maid
- I See Ice as Bride
1937
- The Five Pound Man as Lucy
1936
- The Man Behind the Mask as Waitress