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