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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 27, 1905
Died
October 18, 1972
Place of Birth
Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Also Known As
- Esme Cannon
Esma Cannon
0.5 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.8
Bridget Madderley (archive footage) (uncredited)
What's a Carry On?
1998
5.7
Miss Cooling / Bridget Madderley (archive footage)
That's Carry On!
1977
6.0
Tea Lady
Hide and Seek
1964
6.4
Flo Sims
Carry On Cabby
1963
5.6
Consul's Wife
We Joined the Navy
1963
5.8
Mrs. Jones
Nurse on Wheels
1963
5.7
Lady on Zebra Crossing
The Fast Lady
1962
7.7
Mrs. Timms
On the Beat
1962
5.9
Mrs. Raikes
In the Doghouse
1962
6.1
Bridget Madderley
Carry On Cruising
1962
Credits
What's a Carry On?
as Bridget Madderley (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
7.8
That's Carry On!
as Miss Cooling / Bridget Madderley (archive footage)
1977
5.7
Hide and Seek
as Tea Lady
1964
6.0
Carry On Cabby
as Flo Sims
1963
6.4
We Joined the Navy
as Consul's Wife
1963
5.6
Nurse on Wheels
as Mrs. Jones
1963
5.8
The Fast Lady
as Lady on Zebra Crossing
1962
5.7
On the Beat
as Mrs. Timms
1962
7.7
In the Doghouse
as Mrs. Raikes
1962
5.9
Carry On Cruising
as Bridget Madderley
1962
6.1
🎬
Stryker of the Yard
1961
0.0
Over the Odds
as Alice
1961
0.0
The Rag Trade
1961
5.7
What a Carve Up!
as Aunt Emily
1961
7.0
Raising the Wind
as Mrs. Deevens
1961
6.2
Carry On Regardless
as Miss Cooling
1961
6.2
No Kidding
as District Nurse
1960
5.6
Maigret
1960
7.2
Doctor in Love
as Rafia Woman (uncredited)
1960
5.2
Carry On Constable
as Deaf Old Lady
1960
6.3
The Flesh and the Fiends
as Aggie
1960
6.5
Inn for Trouble
as Dolly
1960
6.5
Expresso Bongo
as Nightclub Cleaner
1959
5.1
I'm All Right Jack
as Spencer
1959
6.6
Jack the Ripper
as Nelly
1959
6.1
Further Up the Creek
as Maudie Lovelace
1958
6.0
Three Men in a Boat
as Meek Woman (Maze)
1956
6.3
A Touch of the Sun
as Miss Tickle
1956
5.6
Sailor Beware
as Edie Hornett
1956
7.0
Simon and Laura
as Laura from Newcastle
1955
5.8
Out of the Clouds
as Rich Woman's Companion
1955
5.8
The Sleeping Tiger
as Scrubwoman with ladder
1954
5.5
Trouble in Store
as Café Customer (uncredited)
1953
6.1
The Large Rope
as Screaming Woman
1953
5.5
The Steel Key
as Patient in Doctor's Waiting Room
1953
6.1
Noose for a Lady
as Miss Ginch
1953
5.7
Crow Hollow
as Aunt Judith Armour
1952
5.8
Last Holiday
as Miss Fox
1950
7.1
Double Confession
as Madam Cleo
1950
6.0
Guilt Is My Shadow
as Peggy
1950
5.2
Helter Skelter
as Autograph Huntress (uncredited)
1949
6.2
Marry Me
as Pleasant Little Woman (uncredited)
1949
4.3
The Huggetts Abroad
as Brown Owl
1949
6.6
Vote for Huggett
as (uncredited)
1949
6.6
Here Come the Huggetts
as Youth Leader
1948
6.5
Jassy
as Lindy Wicks
1947
5.4
Holiday Camp
as Elsie Dawson
1947
6.6
The Years Between
as Effie
1946
6.2
A Canterbury Tale
as Agnes
1944
6.9
English Without Tears
as Queenie
1944
5.7
The Way Ahead
as Mrs. Ted Brewer
1944
6.5
Fanny by Gaslight
as Maid (uncredited)
1944
5.2
The Young Mr. Pitt
as Servant at Lord Auckland's
1942
5.7
🎬
Asking for Trouble
as Ada
1942
6.0
🎬
We Serve
1942
0.0
Quiet Wedding
as (uncredited)
1941
5.0
Contraband
as Erik Skold's Niece
1940
7.1
The Spy in Black
as Maggie
1939
6.4
Poison Pen
as Mrs Warren
1939
6.5
I Met a Murderer
as A Hiker
1939
4.7
🎬
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
1939
0.0
Trouble Brewing
as Maid
1939
6.7
It's in the Air
as Sir Philip's Maid
1938
5.7
I See Ice
as Bride
1938
8.1
🎬
The Five Pound Man
as Lucy
1937
0.0
The Man Behind the Mask
as Waitress
1936
4.8