Gloria Winters
Actress

Gloria Winters Net Worth

Gloria Winters was a child actress who was born in Los Angeles in 1931. She had small roles in movies before being cast as William Bendix's daughter "Babs" in the television series "The Life of Riley" (1949). She then went on to star in the show "Sky King" (1951) as the niece "Penny". During this time, she began dating the show's sound engineer and eventually married him. She also appeared in the comedy 'Hold That Line (1952)'. After "Sky King" ended, Gloria retired from show business and remained close to her husband until his death in 1985.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day November 28, 1931
Birth Place  Los Angeles, California, United States
Age 89 YEARS OLD
Died On August 14, 2010(2010-08-14) (aged 78)\nVista, San Diego County, California
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Resting place Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Occupation Actress, author
Spouse(s) Dean Stevens Vernon
Children None

💰 Net worth: $13 Million (2024)

Gloria Winters, a renowned actress and soundtrack artist from the United States, has accumulated a remarkable net worth of $13 Million by the year 2024. With a thriving career in the entertainment industry, she has showcased her versatile talent in both acting and contributing to soundtracks. Known for her memorable performances, Gloria Winters has undoubtedly made a significant impact on the American entertainment scene, solidifying her status as a successful and respected figure in the industry.

Biography/Timeline

1926

Winters married Dean Stevens Vernon (1926–2001), a sound Engineer on Sky King, and gave up acting following a 1960 appearance on Hugh O'Brian's ABC western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.

1940

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 (1950).

1949

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.

1950

Winters' signature role was in the television drama Sky King, starring Kirby Grant as rancher and pilot Schuyler "Sky" King in Arizona of the 1950s. Winters played the blonde, baby-faced, perky but earnest and helpful teen-aged niece, Penny King, who lived with her uncle at the Flying Crown Ranch and often became involved in his varied adventures. She played the role in seventy-two episodes from 1952 to 1959. Ron Hagerthy is the same age as Winters, and appeared in nineteen episodes during 1952 as Sky King's nephew, Clipper King, but it was not clarified if Clipper was the brother or the cousin of Penny. Sky King ran on NBC and ABC, and was filmed in 1951 to1952 and from 1955 through at least 1959, as sponsors changed. It ran thereafter in syndication, but the actors received no residuals.

1951

In the interim, Winters had guest roles in series, including the anthology Death Valley Days, The Jack Benny Program, Richard Diamond, Private Detective; Racket Squad; The Gene Autry Show, in which she made her singing debut in the 1951 episode "Warning! Danger!", The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Brave Eagle, Four Star Playhouse, General Electric Theater, Frontier Doctor, Judge Roy Bean (in the episode "Four Ladies from Laredo"), The Roy Rogers Show, and Sheriff of Cochise.

1952

During this time, Winters appeared in movies, including Hold That Line (1952), starring the Bowery Boys, and She Couldn't Say No.

1953

Winters appeared, too, in a recurring role as Ruth Farley in the 1953–1955 ABC sitcom with a variety show theme, Where's Raymond?, renamed The Ray Bolger Show. Verna Felton played her mother. The series starred Ray Bolger as Raymond Wallace, a song-and-dance man who was repeatedly barely on time for his performances.

1964

In 1964, Winters wrote Penny's Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity (Prentice Hall), an etiquette book aimed at young girls, which inspired the alternative rock band Nada Surf's 1996 song and video "Popular." As well, Jimmy Buffett's song "Pencil Thin Mustache" contains a reminiscence of being about "bucktoothed and skinny ... writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny."

2000

Gloria Winters 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." (One source says she had appeared as a baby in the 1932 Carole Lombard film Virtue.)

2001

When her husband retired, the two moved to Vista, California. He died in 2001, and Winters succumbed nine years later of complications from pneumonia at her home. She was survived by her sister-in-law Phyllis DeCinces, and was interred alongside her husband at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.

2002

In 2002, she was awarded the Motion Picture & Television Fund's Golden Boot Award for her work in Western films and television programs.

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