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
all 58
Movies 34
TV Shows 24
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)
Murphy Brown (1988)
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
Dear John (1988)
Save the Dog! (1988)
The Wonder Years (1988)
CBS Summer Playhouse (1987)
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
Max Headroom (1987)
The Charmings (1987)
The Bronx Zoo (1987)
Ratboy (1986)
Starman (1986)
One Crazy Summer (1986)
Help Wanted: Kids (1986)
Who's the Boss? (1984)
Hunter (1984)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Goodnight, Beantown (1983)
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
It Takes Two (1982)
Newhart (1982)
Remington Steele (1982)
Young Doctors in Love (1982)
Knots Landing (1979)
Benson (1979)
The Facts of Life (1979)
Apple's Way (1974)
Happy Days (1974)
The Waltons (1972)
Getting Straight (1970)
Adam-12 (1968)
The Odd Couple (1968)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Ironside (1967)
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966)
The Cat Burglar (1961)
Too Soon to Love (1960)
Blue Denim (1959)
Born to Be Loved (1959)
Unwed Mother (1958)
The Joker Is Wild (1957)
Gunsmoke (1955)
Letter to Loretta (1953)
My Wife's Best Friend (1952)
Somebody Loves Me (1952)
Just Across the Street (1952)
Journey Into Light (1951)
Rhubarb (1951)
Darling, How Could You! (1951)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
The Mating Season (1951)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1908-02-28
Deathday2002-11-27 (94 years old)
Birth PlacePocatello, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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