Gloria Winters (November 28, 1931 â€" August 14, 2010) was an actress
most remembered for having portrayed the well-mannered niece, Penny
King, in the 1950s â€" 1960s American television series Sky King.Born
Gloria Carolyn Hirst in Los Angeles on November 28, 1931, She grew up
in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, and later moved to
Hollywood with her family. A child actress, she made her debut, she
said in a mid-2000s radio interview, "when I was about five," with a
small role in a Shirley Temple movie. "I came running out to Shirley
Temple, and she was supposed to help me, like I had just gone to the
little girls' room."Winters went on to a Pete Smith movie short, in a
scene of her coming down a slide to the grass, where a black Scottie
dog licked her face. She also appeared in an Our Gang feature. She
performed onstage, and took tap dance classes, and in the late 1940s
and early 1950s was first cast in Western films such as Driftwood
(1947) and El Paso (1949), and in such television series as The Lone
Ranger and The Range Rider. Her roughly twenty films, mostly Westerns,
include The Lawless (1950) and Gambling House (1951).She portrayed
daughter Babs Riley in the first season of the NBC sitcom The Life of
Riley (1949 to 1950), starring Jackie Gleason and Rosemary DeCamp. The
show was subsequently recast with William Bendix in the lead. Gloria Winters Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter