Billie Bird
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)
Home Alone
(Woman in Airport)
Barefoot in the Park
(Drunken Neighbor (uncredited))
The Lemon Drop Kid
(Racetrack Bettor on Iron Bar (uncredited))
Ernest Saves Christmas
(Mary Morrissey)
Sixteen Candles
(Dorothy Baker)
One Crazy Summer
(Grandma)
Unwed Mother
(Gertie)
This Property Is Condemned
(Party Guest (uncredited))
Somebody Loves Me
(Essie)
My Wife's Best Friend
(Katie)
Too Soon to Love
(Mrs. Jefferson)
Born to Be Loved
(Drunk's Wife)
Just Across the Street
(Pearl)
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
(Mrs. Feldman)
The End of Innocence
(Mrs. Yabledablov)
Young Doctors in Love
(The Hospital Staff - Flower Lady)
Stand Up and Be Counted
(uncredited)
The Joker is Wild
(Ticket Seller / Cashier (uncredited))
Darling, How Could You!
(Rosie)
That's Adequate
(Lillian Darling)
Jury Duty
(Rose)
Blue Denim
(Woman (uncredited))
Help Wanted: Kids
(Bea)
The Cat Burglar
(Mrs. Prattle)
Ratboy
(Psychic)
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
(Mrs. Stanwyck)
The Odd Couple
(Chambermaid (uncredited))
Dennis the Menace
(Edith Butterwell)
Rhubarb
(Mona Lizzie (uncredited))
Las Vegas Hillbillys
The Mating Season
(Mugsy)
Getting Straight
(Landlady)
Max Dugan Returns
(Older Woman)
Journey Into Light
(Gertie)
Remington Steele
(Anna Dix)
Who's the Boss?
(Tessie)
The Facts of Life
Benson
(Rose Cassidy)
Gunsmoke
(Old Woman)
Murphy Brown
Happy Days
Knots Landing
(Sheila)
Newhart
The Wonder Years
(Woman)
Max Headroom
Starman
Hunter
(Marie Watson)
The Waltons
Ironside
The Charmings
The Bronx Zoo
Apple's Way
Dear John
(Margie Philbert)
Letter to Loretta
(Mrs. Shubb)
It Takes Two
Goodnight, Beantown
Adam-12
(Winnie Goodrich)
George & Leo
The Waltons
(Mrs. Cox)
Cheers
(Lillian Miller)