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: Acting

Born: Pocatello, Idaho, 1908-02-28

Died: 2002-11-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	The Mating Season	Mugsy	66
2	1951	The Lemon Drop Kid	Racetrack Bettor on Iron Bar (uncredited)	65
3	1951	Darling, How Could You!	Rosie	60
4	1951	Rhubarb	Mona Lizzie (uncredited)	55
5	1951	Journey Into Light	Gertie	60
6	1952	Just Across the Street	Pearl	20
7	1952	Somebody Loves Me	Essie	85
8	1952	My Wife's Best Friend	Katie	54
9	1957	The Joker is Wild	Ticket Seller / Cashier (uncredited)	80
10	1958	Unwed Mother	Gertie	45
11	1959	Born to Be Loved	Drunk's Wife	52
12	1959	Blue Denim	Woman (uncredited)	52
13	1960	Too Soon to Love	Mrs. Jefferson	38
14	1961	The Cat Burglar	Mrs. Prattle	55
15	1966	Las Vegas Hillbillys		27
16	1966	This Property Is Condemned	Party Guest (uncredited)	63
17	1967	Barefoot in the Park	Drunken Neighbor (uncredited)	71
18	1968	The Odd Couple	Chambermaid (uncredited)	75
19	1970	Getting Straight	Landlady	64
20	1972	Stand Up and Be Counted	uncredited	70
21	1982	Young Doctors in Love	The Hospital Staff - Flower Lady	52
22	1983	Max Dugan Returns	Older Woman	65
23	1984	Sixteen Candles	Dorothy Baker	68
24	1986	Help Wanted: Kids	Bea	60
25	1986	One Crazy Summer	Grandma	60
26	1986	Ratboy	Psychic	34
27	1987	Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol	Mrs. Feldman	55
28	1988	Ernest Saves Christmas	Mary Morrissey	53
29	1989	That's Adequate	Lillian Darling	32
30	1989	Police Academy 6: City Under Siege	Mrs. Stanwyck	52
31	1990	Home Alone	Woman in Airport	74
32	1990	The End of Innocence	Mrs. Yabledablov	15
33	1993	Dennis the Menace	Edith Butterwell	59
34	1995	Jury Duty	Rose	44

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	Letter to Loretta	Mrs. Shubb	65
2	1955	Gunsmoke	Old Woman	66
3	1964	The Young Marrieds	Mrs. Gubbins	30
4	1967	Ironside		68
5	1968	Adam-12	Winnie Goodrich	70
6	1972	The Waltons	Mrs. Cox	71
7	1972	The Waltons	Shirley	71
8	1974	Happy Days		76
9	1974	Apple's Way		63
10	1979	The Facts of Life		70
11	1979	Benson	Rose Cassidy	71
12	1979	Knots Landing	Sheila	69
13	1982	Cheers	Lillian Miller	76
14	1982	Remington Steele	Anna Dix	71
15	1982	Newhart		71
16	1982	It Takes Two		50
17	1983	Goodnight, Beantown		55
18	1984	Hunter	Marie Watson	72
19	1984	Who's the Boss?	Tessie	74
20	1986	Starman		68
21	1987	The Bronx Zoo		50
22	1987	The Charmings		48
23	1987	Max Headroom		69
24	1988	The Wonder Years	Woman	83
25	1988	Dear John	Margie Philbert	57
26	1988	Murphy Brown		65
27	1997	George & Leo		0

Billie Bird

Film

Television