Billie Bird, 94, who began performing in vaudeville as a child and became a TV and movie character actress in her later years, died Nov. 27 of Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles.
Bird, whose full name was Billie Bird Sellen, had been struggling with the disease for nearly five years.
She worked as recently as 1995, in the Pauly Shore comedy "Jury Duty." Other recent performances include 1993's "Dennis the Menace" and 1990's "Home Alone."
