Billie Bird

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 bestknown film appearances was in the 1968 movie The Odd Couple 1968 Her last appearance was a cameo in 1997 in the shortlived television comedy George amp Leo 1997 with Judd Hirsch and Bob Newhart She had also been a regular from 19881992 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 Alzheimers disease