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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)
As actor
Jury Duty
Dennis the Menace
Home Alone
The End of Innocence
That's Adequate
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Ernest Saves Christmas
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
One Crazy Summer
Help Wanted: Kids
Ratboy
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
Born to Be Loved
Blue Denim
Unwed Mother
The Joker is Wild
Somebody Loves Me
My Wife's Best Friend
Just Across the Street
The Lemon Drop Kid