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Esma Cannon
Born: 1905-12-27 in 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.
Rated Filmography (59)
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Over the Odds
1961
7.7
What's a Carry On?
1998
7.7
On the Beat
1962
7.5
Sailor Beware
1956
7.2
Vote for Huggett
1949
7.1
Contraband
1940
7.1
Last Holiday
1950
7.0
Hide and Seek
1964
7.0
What a Carve Up!
1961
6.9
A Canterbury Tale
1944
6.9
Trouble Brewing
1939
6.9
Inn for Trouble
1960
6.8
The Huggetts Abroad
1949
6.8
Holiday Camp
1947
6.7
Here Come the Huggetts
1948
6.7
Poison Pen
1939
6.7
The Years Between
1946
6.6
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960
6.6
I'm All Right Jack
1959
6.6
Further Up the Creek
1958
6.5
The Way Ahead
1944
6.5
I See Ice
1938
6.4
Carry On Cabby
1963
6.4
The Spy in Black
1939
6.4
Helter Skelter
1949
6.4
In the Doghouse
1962
6.3
Raising the Wind
1961
6.3
Three Men in a Boat
1956
6.3
English Without Tears
1944
6.3
Carry On Constable
1960
6.3
The Steel Key
1953
6.2
Double Confession
1950
6.2
Carry On Regardless
1961
6.2
Jack the Ripper
1959
6.2
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942
6.1
Out of the Clouds
1955
6.1
Trouble in Store
1953
6.1
No Kidding
1960
6.1
Carry On Cruising
1962
6.1
Nurse on Wheels
1963
6.1
Crow Hollow
1952
6.0
We Joined the Navy
1963
6.0
The Large Rope
1953
6.0
Noose for a Lady
1953
6.0
A Touch of the Sun
1956
5.9
It's in the Air
1938
5.9
Simon and Laura
1955
5.8
That's Carry On!
1977
5.8
The Fast Lady
1962
5.8
Marry Me
1949
5.7
Guilt Is My Shadow
1950
5.6
The Sleeping Tiger
1954
5.5
Fanny by Gaslight
1944
5.5
I Met a Murderer
1939
5.5
Doctor in Love
1960
5.3
Expresso Bongo
1959
5.3
The Man Behind the Mask
1936
5.3
Quiet Wedding
1941
5.2
Jassy
1947