Esma Cannon
Birthday: 1905-12-27
Place of Birth: Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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.
Movies
Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series o...
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Carry On Cruising
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short no...
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The Way Ahead
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and...
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Raising the Wind
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Rober...
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Hide and Seek
A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian...
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That's Carry On!
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will...
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Carry On Cabby
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, ...
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The Five Pound Man
British comedy crime film. Richard Fordyce released from prison after serving a sentence for counter...
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The Sleeping Tiger
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes...
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No Kidding
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-mak...
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The Years Between
After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new ...
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Nurse on Wheels
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up he...
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Further Up the Creek
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey...
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Trouble Brewing
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes unde...
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Jassy
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued ...
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Here Come the Huggetts
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Ro...
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The Huggetts Abroad
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to S...
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What a Carve Up!
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ance...
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Holiday Camp
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the...
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On the Beat
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst oth...
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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot....
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I'm All Right Jack
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at...
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Poison Pen
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with ma...
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The Spy in Black
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet....
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I See Ice
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidenta...
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It's in the Air
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal ...
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Inn for Trouble
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely po...
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Contraband
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spie...
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The Man Behind the Mask
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything...
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Carry On Constable
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police...
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Doctor in Love
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping...
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Last Holiday
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On hi...
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I Met a Murderer
An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife....
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Asking for Trouble
A London fishmonger helps a young woman evade her unwanted upcoming marriage by pretending to be her...
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Quiet Wedding
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day....
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In the Doghouse
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice....
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Sailor Beware
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Sh...
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Jack the Ripper
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is b...
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Double Confession
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes i...
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Vote for Huggett
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land,...
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Expresso Bongo
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation....
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Guilt Is My Shadow
A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the n...
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We Joined the Navy
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a...
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We Serve
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman ...
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Three Men in a Boat
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misa...
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The Large Rope
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and re...
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Noose for a Lady
A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works aga...
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A Canterbury Tale
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbu...
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Helter Skelter
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping....
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Simon and Laura
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show....
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The Fast Lady
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father...
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English Without Tears
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial ri...
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Marry Me
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his...
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The Steel Key
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend....
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Fanny by Gaslight
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father...
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A Touch of the Sun
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of w...
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The Flesh and the Fiends
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the hum...
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The Young Mr. Pitt
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit...
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Trouble in Store
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't...
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What's a Carry On?
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips a...
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