Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1908-02-28
Day of Death
2002-11-27
Place of Birth
Pocatello, Idaho
Billie Bird
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 (34)
Jury Duty
1995
Dennis the Menace
1993
The End of Innocence
1990
Home Alone
1990
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
1989
That's Adequate
1989
Ernest Saves Christmas
1988
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
1987
Ratboy
1986
One Crazy Summer
1986
Help Wanted: Kids
1986
Sixteen Candles
1984
Max Dugan Returns
1983
Young Doctors in Love
1982
