Bob Penny Dies: Actor In ‘Forrest Gump’, ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ Was 87
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deadline.comBob Penny, a poet and professor who after retirement appeared in small parts in movies including Forrest Gump, Sweet Home Alabama and My Cousin Vinny and in the TV series In the Heat of the Night, died December 25 in Huntsville, AL.
He was 87. His death was announced on the website of Huntsville’s Laughlin Service Funeral Home & Crematory. No cause of death was given.
Penny, born in Anniston, AL, grew up in North Carolina before returning to Alabama where he taught poetry and prose at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for 21 years.
He won a regional award for his own poetry and appeared in dozens of dramatic productions throughout the Southeast, receiving an Applause Award for theater from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in 1996.
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