Billie Bird
Acting • Born 1908-02-28 – Died 2002-11-27
Biography
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
61 credits
Home Alone
Movie • 1990
Woman in Airport
Barefoot in the Park
Movie • 1967
Drunken Neighbor (uncredited)
The Lemon Drop Kid
Movie • 1951
Racetrack Bettor on Iron Bar (uncredited)
Ernest Saves Christmas
Movie • 1988
Mary Morrissey
Sixteen Candles
Movie • 1984
Dorothy Baker
One Crazy Summer
Movie • 1986
Grandma
Unwed Mother
Movie • 1958
Gertie
This Property Is Condemned
Movie • 1966
Party Guest (uncredited)
Somebody Loves Me
Movie • 1952
Essie
My Wife's Best Friend
Movie • 1952
Katie
Too Soon to Love
Movie • 1960
Mrs. Jefferson
Born to Be Loved
Movie • 1959
Drunk's Wife
Just Across the Street
Movie • 1952
Pearl
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Feldman
The End of Innocence
Movie • 1990
Mrs. Yabledablov
Young Doctors in Love
Movie • 1982
The Hospital Staff - Flower Lady
Stand Up and Be Counted
Movie • 1972
uncredited
The Joker is Wild
Movie • 1957
Ticket Seller / Cashier (uncredited)
Darling, How Could You!
Movie • 1951
Rosie
That's Adequate
Movie • 1989
Lillian Darling
Jury Duty
Movie • 1995
Rose
Blue Denim
Movie • 1959
Woman (uncredited)
Help Wanted: Kids
Movie • 1986
Bea
The Cat Burglar
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Prattle
Ratboy
Movie • 1986
Psychic
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Movie • 1989
Mrs. Stanwyck
The Odd Couple
Movie • 1968
Chambermaid (uncredited)
Dennis the Menace
Movie • 1993
Edith Butterwell
Rhubarb
Movie • 1951
Mona Lizzie (uncredited)
Las Vegas Hillbillys
Movie • 1966
The Mating Season
Movie • 1951
Mugsy
Getting Straight
Movie • 1970
Landlady
Max Dugan Returns
Movie • 1983
Older Woman
Journey Into Light
Movie • 1951
Gertie
Remington Steele
TV • 1982
Anna Dix
Who's the Boss?
TV • 1984
Tessie
The Facts of Life
TV • 1979
Benson
TV • 1979
Rose Cassidy
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Old Woman
Murphy Brown
TV • 1988
Happy Days
TV • 1974
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Sheila
Newhart
TV • 1982
The Wonder Years
TV • 1988
Woman
Max Headroom
TV • 1987
Starman
TV • 1986
Hunter
TV • 1984
Marie Watson
Ironside
TV • 1967
The Charmings
TV • 1987
The Bronx Zoo
TV • 1987
Apple's Way
TV • 1974
Dear John
TV • 1988
Margie Philbert
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Mrs. Shubb
It Takes Two
TV • 1982
Goodnight, Beantown
TV • 1983
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Winnie Goodrich
George & Leo
TV • 1997
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Mrs. Cox
Cheers
TV • 1982
Lillian Miller
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Shirley
The Young Marrieds
TV • 1964
Mrs. Gubbins