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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.819 |
Birthday | 1905-12-27 |
Place of Birth | Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Also Known As | Esme Cannon, |
1961
Carry On Regardless
6.4/47
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying...
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Carry On Regardless
1962
Carry On Cruising
6/61
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to...
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Carry On Cruising
1944
The Way Ahead
6.4/35
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...
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The Way Ahead
1961
Raising the Wind
6.6/8
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth...
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Raising the Wind
1964
Hide and Seek
6/3
A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady...
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Hide and Seek
1977
That's Carry On!
5.762/21
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film s...
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That's Carry On!
1963
Carry On Cabby
6.5/59
Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears...
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Carry On Cabby
1937
The Five Pound Man
0/0
British comedy crime film. Richard Fordyce released from prison after serving a sentence for counterfeiting of which he was innocent, determines to fi...
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The Five Pound Man
1954
The Sleeping Tiger
5.6/27
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wish...
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The Sleeping Tiger
1960
No Kidding
6/7
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the k...
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No Kidding
1952
Crow Hollow
5.8/8
A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew's bride in a dark mansion.
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Crow Hollow
1946
The Years Between
6.2/5
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop...
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The Years Between
1963
Nurse on Wheels
5.7/13
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes...
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Nurse on Wheels
1958
Further Up the Creek
6/6
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...
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Further Up the Creek
1939
Trouble Brewing
6/5
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing...
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Trouble Brewing
1947
Jassy
5.4/10
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the...
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Jassy
1948
Here Come the Huggetts
6.4/5
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix'...
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Here Come the Huggetts
1949
The Huggetts Abroad
6.6/5
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family...
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The Huggetts Abroad
1961
What a Carve Up!
7/18
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather ecce...
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What a Carve Up!
1947
Holiday Camp
6.1/9
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend...
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Holiday Camp
1955
Out of the Clouds
6/2
A day following workers at an airport
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Out of the Clouds
1962
On the Beat
7.7/28
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform...
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On the Beat
1939
The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
0/0
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
1959
I'm All Right Jack
6.7/70
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start fr...
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I'm All Right Jack
1939
Poison Pen
6.5/6
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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Poison Pen
1939
The Spy in Black
6.3/57
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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The Spy in Black
1938
I See Ice
8.1/4
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensu...
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I See Ice
1938
It's in the Air
5.6/7
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he r...
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It's in the Air
1960
Inn for Trouble
6.5/6
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made...
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Inn for Trouble
1940
Contraband
6.9/17
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...
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Contraband
1936
The Man Behind the Mask
4.8/5
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and h...
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The Man Behind the Mask
1960
Carry On Constable
6.4/53
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse,...
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Carry On Constable
1960
Doctor in Love
5.5/12
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c...
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Doctor in Love
1950
Last Holiday
7.3/44
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside...
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Last Holiday
1939
I Met a Murderer
4.7/6
An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.
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I Met a Murderer
1942
Asking for Trouble
6/2
A London fishmonger helps a young woman evade her unwanted upcoming marriage by pretending to be her fiancé, a big game hunter from Africa. Comedy.
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Asking for Trouble
1941
Quiet Wedding
4.2/5
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
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Quiet Wedding
1962
In the Doghouse
6.9/5
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
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In the Doghouse
1956
Sailor Beware
7/5
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,rai...
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Sailor Beware
1959
Jack the Ripper
5.9/22
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
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Jack the Ripper
1950
Double Confession
6.1/13
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsucc...
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Double Confession
1949
Vote for Huggett
6.6/5
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a...
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Vote for Huggett
1959
Expresso Bongo
5.4/15
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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Expresso Bongo
1950
Guilt Is My Shadow
5.2/6
A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.
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Guilt Is My Shadow
1963
We Joined the Navy
5.4/8
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the righ...
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We Joined the Navy
1942
We Serve
0/0
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
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We Serve
1956
Three Men in a Boat
6.3/9
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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Three Men in a Boat
1953
The Large Rope
5.5/6
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a qui...
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The Large Rope
1953
Noose for a Lady
5.7/7
An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering...
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Noose for a Lady
1944
A Canterbury Tale
6.9/111
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
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A Canterbury Tale
1949
Helter Skelter
6.2/3
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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Helter Skelter
1955
Simon and Laura
5.5/11
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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Simon and Laura
1962
The Fast Lady
5.6/16
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
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The Fast Lady
1944
English Without Tears
5.7/6
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her L...
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English Without Tears
1949
Marry Me
4.333/3
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on...
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Marry Me
1953
The Steel Key
5.5/3
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
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The Steel Key
1944
Fanny by Gaslight
5.7/8
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...
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Fanny by Gaslight
1956
A Touch of the Sun
5.6/5
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
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A Touch of the Sun
1960
The Flesh and the Fiends
6.5/50
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find...
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The Flesh and the Fiends
1942
The Young Mr. Pitt
5.4/6
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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