Billie Bird

Known for ActingBorn 1908-02-28Died 2002-11-27Pocatello, Idaho

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)Read more

Movies & web series

George & Leo

Somebody Loves Me

The Wonder Years

The Joker is Wild

Cheers

Happy Days

Home Alone

Who's the Boss?

The Odd Couple

Hunter

Remington Steele

Newhart

The Waltons

Benson

The Facts of Life

Starman

Goodnight, Beantown

Adam-12

Barefoot in the Park

Max Headroom

Stand Up and Be Counted

Darling, How Could You!

Knots Landing

Sixteen Candles

Ironside

Max Dugan Returns

The Bronx Zoo

Help Wanted: Kids

Murphy Brown

Apple's Way

Gunsmoke

This Property Is Condemned

The Mating Season

Letter to Loretta

The Lemon Drop Kid

Journey Into Light

Getting Straight

One Crazy Summer

It Takes Two

Dennis the Menace

Dear John

My Wife's Best Friend

The Cat Burglar

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

Rhubarb

Born to Be Loved

Ernest Saves Christmas

The Charmings