Billie Bird

Billie Bird (94)

1908-02-28 - 2002-11-27 | Pocatello, 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)

On Movies

  • Jury Duty
  • Dennis the Menace
  • The End of Innocence
  • Home Alone
  • Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
  • That's Adequate
  • Ernest Saves Christmas
  • Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
  • Ratboy
  • One Crazy Summer
  • Help Wanted: Kids
  • Sixteen Candles
  • Max Dugan Returns
  • Young Doctors in Love
  • Stand Up and Be Counted
  • Getting Straight
  • The Odd Couple
  • Barefoot in the Park
  • This Property Is Condemned
  • Las Vegas Hillbillys
  • The Cat Burglar
  • Too Soon to Love
  • Blue Denim
  • Born to Be Loved
  • Unwed Mother
  • The Joker is Wild
  • My Wife's Best Friend
  • Somebody Loves Me
  • Just Across the Street
  • Journey Into Light
  • Rhubarb
  • Darling, How Could You!
  • The Lemon Drop Kid
  • The Mating Season

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