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)
Billie Bird Biography / Wiki
| Name | Billie Bird |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Pocatello, Idaho |
| Date of Birth | 1908-02-28 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 94 |
| Deathday | 2002-11-27 |
Billie Bird Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Somebody Loves Me | Essie | 1952-09-24 | Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields…. |
| The End of Innocence | Mrs. Yabledablov | 1990-12-06 | Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she’s admitte… |
| Ernest Saves Christmas | Mary Morrissey | 1988-11-11 | When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment … |
| Born to Be Loved | Drunk’s Wife | 1959-06-01 | Director Hugo Haas reprises the theme of romantic love in this routine yet innocent story of matchmaking. The setting is an overcrowded tenement build… |
| One Crazy Summer | Grandma | 1986-08-08 | An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers…. |
| Too Soon to Love | Mrs. Jefferson | 1960-02-01 | Unmarried teenage lovers turn to desperate measures after their clandestine tryst results in an unplanned pregnancy…. |
| Help Wanted: Kids | Bea | 1986-02-02 | When the Burkes loose their jobs in New York, they have to move to Arizona, where Tom has an job-offer in the management of a small company for childr… |
| The Cat Burglar | Mrs. Prattle | 1961-07-01 | Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner A… |
| Just Across the Street | Pearl | 1952-06-15 | A plumber’s secretary poses as the daughter of a prominent society couple…. |
| My Wife’s Best Friend | Katie | 1952-10-09 | When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan o… |
| The Odd Couple | Chambermaid (uncredited) | 1968-05-16 | In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with… |
| Max Dugan Returns | Older Woman | 1983-03-25 | An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life…. |
| Sixteen Candles | Dorthy Baker | 1984-05-04 | A teenage girl deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school’s heartthrob…. |
| Barefoot in the Park | 1967-05-25 | In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwi… | |
| Darling, How Could You! | Rosie | 1951-08-08 | Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama…. |
| Unwed Mother | Gertie | 1958-11-23 | A young, sweet girl from the country moves to Los Angeles with her mother and meets a young man who she thinks is just perfect. That is until she gets… |
| Blue Denim | Woman (uncredited) | 1959-07-30 | Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion…. |
| Dennis the Menace | Edith Butterwell | 1993-06-23 | Mr. Wilson’s ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he’ll need Dennis’s tricks to uncover a collection of g… |
| Journey Into Light | Gertie | 1951-09-28 | John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunk… |
| Rhubarb | Mona Lizzie (uncredited) | 1951-08-29 | Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro basebal… |
| Las Vegas Hillbillys | 1966-05-11 | A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas…. | |
| Ratboy | Psychic | 1986-10-17 | A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money…. |
| Police Academy 6: City Under Siege | Mrs. Stanwyck | 1989-03-09 | Our favourite police men are called together to deal with a gang who rob banks and jewelers. Using their various talents as well as their extraordinar… |
| This Property Is Condemned | Party Guest (uncredited) | 1966-08-03 | A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town’s railway (town’s main income). Owen unexpectedly finds lo… |
| Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol | Mrs. Feldman | 1987-04-02 | A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard’s new Citizens on Patro… |
| Jury Duty | Rose | 1995-04-12 | When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a mur… |
| The Mating Season | Mugsy | 1951-01-12 | Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daugh… |
| Getting Straight | 1970-05-13 | Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he’s back studying for his master’s, he… | |
| The Lemon Drop Kid | Racetrack Bettor on Iron Bar (uncredited) | 1951-04-02 | When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Cr… |
| Home Alone | Woman in Airport | 1990-11-16 | Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. Bu… |
| Young Doctors in Love | The Hospital Staff – Flower Lady | 1982-07-16 | An ‘Airplane!’-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can’t stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in ord… |
| That’s Adequate | Lillian Darling | 1989-01-01 | This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his d… |
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