Esma Cannon
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.
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Films (63)
What's a Carry On?
1998 · Bridget Madderley (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Carry On!
1977 · Miss Cooling / Bridget Madderley (archive footage)
Hide and Seek
1964 · Tea Lady
Carry On Cabby
1963 · Flo Sims
We Joined the Navy
1963 · Consul's Wife
Nurse on Wheels
1963 · Mrs. Jones
The Fast Lady
1962 · Lady on Zebra Crossing
On the Beat
1962 · Mrs. Timms
In the Doghouse
1962 · Mrs. Raikes
Carry On Cruising
1962 · Bridget Madderley
Over the Odds
1961 · Alice
What a Carve Up!
1961 · Aunt Emily
Raising the Wind
1961 · Mrs. Deevens
Carry On Regardless
1961 · Miss Cooling
No Kidding
1960 · District Nurse
Doctor in Love
1960 · Rafia Woman (uncredited)
Carry On Constable
1960 · Deaf Old Lady
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960 · Aggie
Inn for Trouble
1960 · Dolly
Expresso Bongo
1959 · Nightclub Cleaner
I'm All Right Jack
1959 · Spencer
Jack the Ripper
1959 · Nelly
Further Up the Creek
1958 · Maudie Lovelace
Three Men in a Boat
1956 · Meek Woman (Maze)
A Touch of the Sun
1956 · Miss Tickle
Sailor Beware
1956 · Edie Hornett
Simon and Laura
1955 · Laura from Newcastle
Out of the Clouds
1955 · Rich Woman's Companion
The Sleeping Tiger
1954 · Scrubwoman with ladder
Trouble in Store
1953 · Café Customer (uncredited)
The Large Rope
1953 · Screaming Woman
The Steel Key
1953 · Patient in Doctor's Waiting Room
Noose for a Lady
1953 · Miss Ginch
Crow Hollow
1952 · Aunt Judith Armour
Last Holiday
1950 · Miss Fox
Double Confession
1950 · Madam Cleo
Guilt Is My Shadow
1950 · Peggy
Helter Skelter
1949 · Autograph Huntress (uncredited)
Marry Me
1949 · Pleasant Little Woman (uncredited)
The Huggetts Abroad
1949 · Brown Owl
Vote for Huggett
1949 · (uncredited)
Here Come the Huggetts
1948 · Youth Leader
Jassy
1947 · Lindy Wicks
Holiday Camp
1947 · Elsie Dawson
The Years Between
1946 · Effie
A Canterbury Tale
1944 · Agnes
English Without Tears
1944 · Queenie
The Way Ahead
1944 · Mrs. Ted Brewer
Fanny by Gaslight
1944 · Maid (uncredited)
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942 · Servant at Lord Auckland's
Asking for Trouble
1942 · Ada
We Serve
1942
Quiet Wedding
1941 · (uncredited)
Contraband
1940 · Erik Skold's Niece
The Spy in Black
1939 · Maggie
Poison Pen
1939 · Mrs Warren
I Met a Murderer
1939 · A Hiker
Trouble Brewing
1939 · Maid
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
1939
It's in the Air
1938 · Sir Philip's Maid
I See Ice
1938 · Bride
The Five Pound Man
1937 · Lucy
The Man Behind the Mask
1936 · Waitress
