Esma Cannon Death
Esma passed away on October 18, 1972 at the age of 66 in Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt, France.
When did Esma Cannon die?
October 18, 1972How old was Esma Cannon when died?
66Where did Esma Cannon die? What was the location of death?
Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt, France
Esma Cannon Birthday and Date of Death
Esma Cannon was born on December 27, 1905 and died on October 18, 1972. Esma was 66 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: December 27, 1905
Date of Death: October 18, 1972
Age at Death: 66
Esma Cannon - Biography
Esma Ellen Charlotte Littman (née Cannon) (27 December 1905 – 18 October 1972), credited as Esme or Esma Cannon, was a diminutive (4 feet 7 inches (1.40 m)) Australian-born character actress and comedienne, who moved to Britain in the early 1930s. Although better known in her latter years for her television roles, she was best known as a film actress, with a lengthy career in early British productions, from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Her film début was an uncredited part in The Man Behind the Mask (1936). She was first credited, as Polly Shepherd, in The Last Adventurers (1937), and appeared in 64 films over the next 26 years. She had small parts in three early Powell and Pressburger films: The Spy in Black (1939), Contraband (1940) and A Canterbury Tale (1944).
In Holiday Camp (1947) she gave a fine dramatic performance of a pathetic and sad spinster who is lured to her death and is the murder victim, quite different from her usual comedy roles. Towards the end of her career, she appeared in Inn for Trouble (1960), Doctor in Love (1960), Raising the Wind (1961), What a Carve Up! (1961), Over the Odds (1961), We Joined the Navy (1962), On the Beat (1962), Nurse on Wheels (1963) and Hide and Seek (1964).
Cannon, whose first name sometimes appears incorrectly as "Esme", retired in 1964 after Hide and Seek. She died in 1972 at the age of 66 and is buried at Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt in France. Her elusiveness was such that her former colleagues and friends discovered she had died only after a "Where are They Now?" feature appeared in Films and Filming a number of years after her death.
