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Billie Bird
Pocatello, Idaho, USA
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 W…
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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)
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1997
George & Leo
TV show
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1995
Jury Duty
Movie Rose
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1993
Dennis the Menace
Movie Edith Butterwell
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1990
The End of Innocence
Movie Mrs. Yabledablov
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1990
Home Alone
Movie Woman in Airport
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1989
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Movie Mrs. Stanwyck
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1989
That's Adequate
Movie Lillian Darling
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1988
Murphy Brown
TV show
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1988
Ernest Saves Christmas
Movie Mary Morrissey
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1988
Dear John
TV show Margie Philbert
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1988
The Wonder Years
TV show Woman
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1987
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Movie Mrs. Feldman
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1987
Max Headroom
TV show
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1987
The Charmings
TV show
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1987
The Bronx Zoo
TV show
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1986
Ratboy
Movie Psychic
More credits
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1986
Starman
TV show
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1986
One Crazy Summer
Movie Grandma
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1986
Help Wanted: Kids
Movie Bea
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1984
Who's the Boss?
TV show Tessie
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1984
Hunter
TV show Marie Watson
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1984
Sixteen Candles
Movie Dorothy Baker
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1983
Goodnight, Beantown
TV show
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1983
Max Dugan Returns
Movie Older Woman
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1982
It Takes Two
TV show Mama
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1982
Newhart
TV show
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1982
Remington Steele
TV show Anna Dix
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1982
Cheers
TV show Lillian Miller
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1982
Young Doctors in Love
Movie The Hospital Staff - Flower Lady
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1979
Knots Landing
TV show Sheila
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1979
Benson
TV show Rose Cassidy
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1979
The Facts of Life
TV show
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1974
Apple's Way
TV show
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1974
Happy Days
TV show
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1972
The Waltons
TV show Mrs. Cox
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1972
Stand Up and Be Counted
Movie uncredited
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1970
Getting Straight
Movie Landlady
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1968
Adam-12
TV show Winnie Goodrich
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1968
The Odd Couple
Movie Chambermaid (uncredited)
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1967
Barefoot in the Park
Movie Drunken Neighbor (uncredited)
