Billie Bird
- Recitazione
- 28 febbraio 1908 · Pocatello, Idaho, USA
- 27 novembre 2002
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- George & Leo
- Un lavoro da giurato · Rose
- Dennis la minaccia · Edith Butterwell
- The End of Innocence · Mrs. Yabledablov
- Mamma, ho perso l'aereo · Woman in Airport
- Scuola di polizia 6: La città è assediata · Mrs. Stanwyck
- That's Adequate · Lillian Darling
- Murphy Brown
- Ernesto salva il Natale · Mary Morrissey
- Dear John · Margie Philbert
- Blue Jeans · Woman
- Scuola di polizia 4: Cittadini in… guardia · Mrs. Feldman
- Max Headroom
- The Charmings
- The Bronx Zoo
- Ratboy · Psychic
- Starman
- Una folle estate · Grandma
- Help Wanted: Kids · Bea
- Casalingo Superpiù · Tessie
- Hunter · Marie Watson
- Sixteen Candles - Un compleanno da ricordare · Dorothy Baker
- Goodnight, Beantown
- Per fortuna c'è un ladro in famiglia · Older Woman
- It Takes Two · Mama
- Bravo Dick · Ella Hayes
- Mai dire sì · Anna Dix
- Cin Cin · Lillian Miller
- L'ospedale più pazzo del mondo · The Hospital Staff - Flower Lady
- California · Sheila
- Benson · Rose Cassidy
- L'albero delle mele
- Apple's Way
- Happy Days
- Una famiglia americana · Mrs. Cox, Shirley
- Stand Up and Be Counted · uncredited
- L'impossibilità di essere normale · Landlady
- Adam-12 · Winnie Goodrich
- La strana coppia · Chambermaid (uncredited)
- A piedi nudi nel parco · Drunken Neighbor (uncredited)
- Ironside
- Questa ragazza è di tutti · Party Guest (uncredited)
- Las Vegas Hillbillys
- The Young Marrieds · Mrs. Gubbins
- La spia in nero · Mrs. Prattle
- Too Soon to Love · Mrs. Jefferson
- Innamorati in blue jeans · Woman (uncredited)
- Born to Be Loved · Drunk's Wife
- Unwed Mother · Gertie
- Il Jolly è impazzito · Ticket Seller / Cashier (uncredited)
- Gunsmoke · Old Woman
- Letter to Loretta · Mrs. Shubb
- My Wife's Best Friend · Katie
- Somebody Loves Me · Essie
- Just Across the Street · Pearl
- Journey Into Light · Gertie
- Il gatto milionario · Mona Lizzie (uncredited)
- Darling, How Could You! · Rosie
- Il ratto delle zitelle · Racetrack Bettor on Iron Bar (uncredited)
- La madre dello sposo · Mugsy