Billie Bird
Acting
1908-02-28 · Pocatello, Idaho, USA
Vaudeville comedienne Billie Bird Sellen was discovered at an orphanage at the age of eight years and hired to tour theater circuits with a vaudeville troupe. During the Vietnam War she accompanied 12 USO tours entertaining the troops in the war zone in the 1960s and 1970s. She had worked as recently as 1995 when she appeared in Jury Duty (1995), starring Pauly Shore. Other notable performances were in Dennis the Menace (1993) and Home Alone (1990). One of her best-known film appearances was in the 1968 movie The Odd Couple (1968). Her last appearance was a cameo in 1997 in the short-lived television comedy George & Leo (1997) with Judd Hirsch and Bob Newhart. She had also been a regular from 1988-1992 in the sitcom Dear John (1988), and in a series of performances as a cheerful and sassy senior citizen in such productions as Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987). Date of Death: 27 November 2002, Granada Hills (Alzheimer's disease)
Filmography
George & Leo
1997 · Series
Jury Duty
1995 · Movie
Dennis the Menace
1993 · Movie
The End of Innocence
1990 · Movie
Home Alone
1990 · Movie
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
1989 · Movie
That's Adequate
1989 · Movie
Murphy Brown
1988 · Series
Ernest Saves Christmas
1988 · Movie
Dear John
1988 · Series
The Wonder Years
1988 · Series
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
1987 · Movie
Max Headroom
1987 · Series
The Charmings
1987 · Series
The Bronx Zoo
1987 · Series
Ratboy
1986 · Movie
Starman
1986 · Series
One Crazy Summer
1986 · Movie
Help Wanted: Kids
1986 · Movie
Who's the Boss?
1984 · Series
Hunter
1984 · Series
Sixteen Candles
1984 · Movie
Goodnight, Beantown
1983 · Series
Max Dugan Returns
1983 · Movie
It Takes Two
1982 · Series
Newhart
1982 · Series
Remington Steele
1982 · Series
Cheers
1982 · Series
Young Doctors in Love
1982 · Movie
Knots Landing
1979 · Series
Benson
1979 · Series
The Facts of Life
1979 · Series
Apple's Way
1974 · Series
Happy Days
1974 · Series
The Waltons
1972 · Series
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972 · Movie
Getting Straight
1970 · Movie
Adam-12
1968 · Series
The Odd Couple
1968 · Movie
Barefoot in the Park
1967 · Movie
Ironside
1967 · Series
This Property Is Condemned
1966 · Movie
Las Vegas Hillbillys
1966 · Movie
The Young Marrieds
1964 · Series
The Cat Burglar
1961 · Movie
Too Soon to Love
1960 · Movie
Blue Denim
1959 · Movie
Born to Be Loved
1959 · Movie
Unwed Mother
1958 · Movie
The Joker is Wild
1957 · Movie
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Series
My Wife's Best Friend
1952 · Movie
Somebody Loves Me
1952 · Movie
Just Across the Street
1952 · Movie
Journey Into Light
1951 · Movie
Rhubarb
1951 · Movie
Darling, How Could You!
1951 · Movie
The Lemon Drop Kid
1951 · Movie
The Mating Season
1951 · Movie