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)
Known for
ActingBirthday
February 28, 1908Deathday
November 27, 2002Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
34Place of birth
Pocatello, IdahoCast credits
Home Alone
Woman in AirportThe Lemon Drop Kid
Racetrack Bettor on Iron Bar (uncredited)Ernest Saves Christmas
Mary MorrisseySixteen Candles
Dorothy BakerOne Crazy Summer
GrandmaUnwed Mother
GertieSomebody Loves Me
EssieMy Wife's Best Friend
KatieToo Soon to Love
Mrs. JeffersonBorn to Be Loved
Drunk's WifePolice Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Mrs. FeldmanThe End of Innocence
Mrs. YabledablovYoung Doctors in Love
The Hospital Staff - Flower LadyDarling, How Could You!
RosieBlue Denim
Woman (uncredited)That's Adequate
Lillian DarlingJury Duty
RoseHelp Wanted: Kids
BeaThe Cat Burglar
Mrs. PrattleRatboy
PsychicPolice Academy 6: City Under Siege
Mrs. Stanwyck