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Dear John

as Margie Philbert

1988
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as Mary Morrissey

1988
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as Grandma

1986
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1982
Benson

as Rose Cassidy

1979
The Odd Couple

as Chambermaid (uncredited)

1968
The Cat Burglar

as Mrs. Prattle

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Too Soon to Love

as Mrs. Jefferson

1960
Born to Be Loved

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Somebody Loves Me

as Essie

1952
Billie Bird Billie Bird

Birthday

1908-02-28

Place of Birth

Pocatello, Idaho

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)
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