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Name: Gloria Winters  
   
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Date of Birth: 28th November 1932
   
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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Gloria Winters, an actor most noted for playing Penny in the 1950s-60s American television series Sky King, was born November 28, 1932, in Los Angeles, California.

She was a child actor, starting as a baby in Virtue, with Carole Lombard. She was in about 20 films. She's also appeared on stage.

In 1949-50, she played Babs Riley in television show The Life of Riley, Riley's daughter. This was the first version with Jackie Gleason and Rosemary DeCamp. A second version with an entirely different cast appeared several years later, starring William Bendix in the title role.

Winters appeared in a number of other television shows, many of them westerns, including Wild Bill Hickok, The Lone Ranger, The Roy Rogers Show, The Dick Powell Theatre, The Jack Benny Show, The Bob Hope Show, The Gene Autry Show and Death Valley Days.

Her signature role was that of Sky King's teen-aged niece in Sky King, which was filmed 1951-52, 1955-56 and 1957-62 as sponsors changed. It ran in syndication after that.

She married the show's sound engineer.

In 2002 she won a Golden Boot Award as a Sweetheart of the West.

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