Cast & creator
Billie Bird
Best known for Cheers, Knots Landing, Adam-12
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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television credits
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1951–1997 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (62)
Showing 62 of 62 credits
Cheers
Lillian Miller
1982
Knots Landing
Sheila
1979
Adam-12
Winnie Goodrich
1968
Ironside
1967
The Waltons
Mrs. Cox
1972The Waltons
Shirley
1972
The Wonder Years
Woman
1988
Happy Days
1974
The Facts of Life
1979
Murphy Brown
1988
Who's the Boss?
Tessie
1984
Newhart
1982Newhart
Ella Hayes
1982
Remington Steele
Anna Dix
1982
Hunter
Marie Watson
1984
Gunsmoke
Old Woman
1955
Dear John
Margie Philbert
1988
Benson
Rose Cassidy
1979
The Young Marrieds
Mrs. Gubbins
1964
Dennis the Menace
Edith Butterwell
1993
George & Leo
1997
Letter to Loretta
Mrs. Shubb
1953
The Bronx Zoo
1987
Starman
1986
Max Headroom
1987
Sixteen Candles
Dorothy Baker
1984
The Charmings
1987
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Mrs. Feldman
1987
Goodnight, Beantown
1983
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Mrs. Stanwyck
1989
Apple's Way
1974
It Takes Two
Mama
1982
The Odd Couple
Chambermaid (uncredited)
1968
Barefoot in the Park
Drunken Neighbor (uncredited)
1967
Young Doctors in Love
The Hospital Staff - Flower Lady
1982
One Crazy Summer
Grandma
1986
This Property Is Condemned
Party Guest (uncredited)
1966
Jury Duty
Rose
1995
The Lemon Drop Kid
Racetrack Bettor on Iron Bar (uncredited)
1951
The Joker is Wild
Ticket Seller / Cashier (uncredited)
1957
Ernest Saves Christmas
Mary Morrissey
1988
Darling, How Could You!
Rosie
1951
Max Dugan Returns
Older Woman
1983
Just Across the Street
Pearl
1952
Ratboy
Psychic
1986
My Wife's Best Friend
Katie
1952
Too Soon to Love
Mrs. Jefferson
1960
The End of Innocence
Mrs. Yabledablov
1990
Las Vegas Hillbillys
1966
Stand Up and Be Counted
uncredited
1972
Home Alone
Woman in Airport
1990
Getting Straight
Landlady
1970
That's Adequate
Lillian Darling
1989
The Mating Season
Mugsy
1951
The Cat Burglar
Mrs. Prattle
1961
Somebody Loves Me
Essie
1952
Rhubarb
Mona Lizzie (uncredited)
1951
Born to Be Loved
Drunk's Wife
1959
Blue Denim
Woman (uncredited)
1959
Journey Into Light
Gertie
1951
Unwed Mother
Gertie
1958
Help Wanted: Kids
Bea
1986