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    Billie Bird

    1908-02-28 (116 years old) in Pocatello, Idaho

    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)

    Movies

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    Jury Duty
    44 %|Apr 12, 1995
    Comedy, Drama
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    Dennis the Menace
    58 %|Jun 24, 1993
    Family, Comedy
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    The End of Innocence
    20 %|Dec 6, 1990
    Drama
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    Home Alone
    74.38 %|Nov 16, 1990
    Comedy, Family
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    Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
    51 %|Mar 9, 1989
    Comedy, Crime
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    That's Adequate
    42 %|Jan 20, 1989
    Comedy
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    Ernest Saves Christmas
    53.129999999999995 %|Nov 11, 1988
    Comedy, Family
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    Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
    55 %|Apr 2, 1987
    Comedy, Crime
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    Ratboy
    34 %|Oct 17, 1986
    Comedy, Crime, Drama
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    One Crazy Summer
    60 %|Aug 8, 1986
    Comedy, Romance, Family
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    Help Wanted: Kids
    60 %|Feb 2, 1986
    Adventure, TV Movie
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    Sixteen Candles
    67.72999999999999 %|May 4, 1984
    Comedy, Romance
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    Max Dugan Returns
    65 %|Mar 25, 1983
    Comedy, Drama, Family
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    Young Doctors in Love
    52 %|Jul 16, 1982
    Comedy
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    Stand Up and Be Counted
    0 %|May 1, 1972
    Comedy, Drama
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    Getting Straight
    62 %|May 13, 1970
    Comedy, Drama, Romance
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    The Odd Couple
    75.05 %|May 16, 1968
    Comedy
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    Barefoot in the Park
    71 %|May 25, 1967
    Comedy, Romance
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    This Property Is Condemned
    63 %|Aug 3, 1966
    Drama, Romance
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    Las Vegas Hillbillys
    27 %|May 11, 1966
    Music, Comedy
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    The Cat Burglar
    55 %|Jul 1, 1961
    Drama, Action, Thriller
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    Too Soon to Love
    38 %|Feb 1, 1960
    Drama, Romance
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    Blue Denim
    52 %|Jul 30, 1959
    Drama, Romance
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    Born to Be Loved
    52 %|Jun 1, 1959
    Comedy, Romance
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    Unwed Mother
    57 %|Nov 23, 1958
    Drama
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    The Joker is Wild
    81 %|Sep 26, 1957
    Drama, Music
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    My Wife's Best Friend
    54 %|Oct 9, 1952
    Comedy, Drama
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    Somebody Loves Me
    85 %|Sep 24, 1952
    Romance, Music
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    Just Across the Street
    20 %|Jun 15, 1952
    Comedy
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    Journey Into Light
    60 %|Sep 28, 1951
    Drama
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    Rhubarb
    55 %|Aug 29, 1951
    Comedy, Family
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    Darling, How Could You!
    60 %|Aug 8, 1951
    Comedy
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    The Lemon Drop Kid
    65.58 %|Apr 2, 1951
    Comedy, Music, Romance
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    The Mating Season
    65.19999999999999 %|Jan 12, 1951
    Comedy, Romance

    Series

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    George & Leo
    0 %|Sep 15, 1997
    Comedy
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    Murphy Brown
    64.33 %|Nov 14, 1988
    Comedy
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    Dear John
    58 %|Oct 6, 1988
    Comedy
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    The Wonder Years
    83.2 %|Jan 31, 1988
    Comedy, Drama, Family
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    Max Headroom
    68 %|Mar 31, 1987
    Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    The Charmings
    48 %|Mar 20, 1987
    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy, Family
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    The Bronx Zoo
    50 %|Mar 19, 1987
    Drama
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    Starman
    67 %|Sep 19, 1986
    Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    Who's the Boss?
    75 %|Sep 20, 1984
    Comedy, Family
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    Hunter
    72 %|Sep 18, 1984
    Action & Adventure, Drama
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    Goodnight, Beantown
    55 %|Apr 3, 1983
    Comedy
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    It Takes Two
    50 %|Oct 14, 1982
    Comedy
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    Newhart
    72 %|Oct 2, 1982
    Comedy, Drama
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    Remington Steele
    71 %|Oct 1, 1982
    Drama, Family, Comedy
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    Cheers
    76 %|Sep 30, 1982
    Comedy
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    Knots Landing
    68 %|Dec 27, 1979
    Drama, Soap
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    Benson
    72 %|Sep 13, 1979
    Comedy
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    The Facts of Life
    70 %|Aug 24, 1979
    Drama, Comedy
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    Apple's Way
    60 %|Feb 10, 1974
    Drama
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    Happy Days
    77 %|Jan 15, 1974
    Comedy
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    The Waltons
    71 %|Sep 14, 1972
    Drama
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    The Waltons
    71 %|Sep 14, 1972
    Drama
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    Adam-12
    71 %|Sep 21, 1968
    Crime, Drama
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    Ironside
    69 %|Mar 28, 1967
    Crime, Drama, Mystery
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    Gunsmoke
    65 %|Sep 10, 1955
    Western, Action & Adventure, Drama
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    Letter to Loretta
    62 %|Sep 20, 1953
    Drama