
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)

Cheers
TV • 1982

The Waltons
TV • 1972

The Waltons
TV • 1972

Knots Landing
TV • 1979

Ironside
TV • 1967

Adam-12
TV • 1968

Hunter
TV • 1984

The Facts of Life
TV • 1979

The Wonder Years
TV • 1988

Happy Days
TV • 1974

Newhart
TV • 1982

Remington Steele
TV • 1982

Who's the Boss?
TV • 1984

Murphy Brown
TV • 1988

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955

Benson
TV • 1979

Dear John
TV • 1988

George & Leo
TV • 1997