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 Chaos! Schwiegersohn Junior im Gerichtssaal (1995), starring
Pauly Shore. Other notable performances were in Dennis (1993) and Kevin - Allein zu Haus (1990).
One of her best-known film appearances was in the 1968 movie Ein seltsames Paar (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 Mein lieber John (1988), and in a series of performances
as a cheerful and sassy senior citizen in such productions as Chaotische Weihnachten (1988)
and Police Academy 4 - Und jetzt geht's rund (1987).
