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Billie Bird (February 28,1908 — November 27, 2002), was an American actress and comedienne born Berneice Bird in Pocatello, Idaho.

Bird was orphaned young and made a career as an entertainer, first in vaudeville, and later in theater/cabaret, television, and movies.

She is credited on the Internet Movie Database with an appearance in a 1921 movie, but it is not clear if this is accurate. Otherwise, she broke into movies in 1950.

Bird was often cast by director John Hughes and appeared in many of his 1980s and 1990s films, including Sixteen Candles
, Home Alone
, and Dennis the Menace
, the latter two of which paired her with veteran Hughes actor, Bill Erwin, as her husband.

She also Stared as Mrs. Lowis Feldman Police Academy 4 She acts like the female version of David Graf's Character Eugene Tackleberry

Her last film appearance was in 1995's ''Jury Duty, with Pauly Shore.

She was a regular (as "Mrs. Philbert") on the TV series Dear John with Judd Hirsch, and on the TV series Hail to the Chief, with Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke playing the first woman President.

She was married to Edwin Sellen, who died in 1966, by whom she had 3 children.

She died in 2002 in Granada Hills, California at the age of 94 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

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