{{Short description|American actress and model (1943–2010)}} {{For|social scientist|Alison Park}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate | name = Allison Parks | image = | caption = | issue = October 1965 | birth_name = Gloria Sharlene Waldron | birth_place = Glendale, California, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date|1941|10|18}}<ref>https://www.palipost.com/gloria-graf-68-longtime-palisadian-model-artist/</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|2010|6|21|1941|10|18}} | death_place = Hawai'i, U.S. | height = 5 ft 6 in | preceded = Patti Reynolds | succeeded = Pat Russo | pmoy-year = 1966 | pmoy-preceded = Jo Collins | pmoy-succeeded = Lisa Baker }}
'''Allison Parks''' (born '''Gloria Sharlene Waldron'''; October 18, 1941 – June 21, 2010)<ref>https://www.palipost.com/gloria-graf-68-longtime-palisadian-model-artist/</ref> was an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month in October 1965, and Playmate of the Year for 1966, appearing as the cover model and in a pictorial in the May issue. She was also in a Playboy Mansion pictorial in the January 1966 issue of ''Playboy'', along with Ashlyn Martin. Her original pictorial was photographed by William Figge.<ref name=octkingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=parks%2C+allison&limit=0|title=October 1965 Playmate Data|access-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref>
==Career== "Allison Parks" was a pseudonym she used when modelling for ''Playboy''. She told ''The Playmate Book'' that she liked it so much, she kept it as her professional name.<ref>{{cite book |first=Gretchen |last=Edgren |title=The Playmate Book: Six Decades of Centerfolds |publisher=Taschen |year=2005 |isbn=978-3822848241}}</ref> She was a mother at the time of her centerfold, and her kids were featured in a photo in her layout, but they were identified as swimming school students.
After her Playmate work, Parks went on to a long career as a model and actress, mostly in TV commercials.
==Death== Parks died of heart failure while on vacation in Hawai'i, at the age of 68.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gloria Graf, 68; Longtime Palisadian, Model, Artist |newspaper=Palisadian-Post |date=July 8, 2010}}</ref>
==See also== * List of people in ''Playboy'' 1960–1969
==References== {{Reflist}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=dev |date=2010-07-08 |title=Gloria Graf, 68; Longtime Palisadian, Model, Artist |url=https://www.palipost.com/gloria-graf-68-longtime-palisadian-model-artist/ |access-date=2025-01-22 |website=Palisadian Post |language=en-US}}</ref>
==External links== * {{playmate|allison-parks}} * {{IMDb name|id=0662903}}
{{PMOYs}} {{playmates of 1965}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Parks, Allison}} Category:1941 births Category:2010 deaths Category:1960s Playboy Playmates Category:Playboy Playmates of the Year Category:American television actresses Category:Actresses from Glendale, California Category:20th-century American actresses Category:21st-century American women