Forrest Gump actor Bob Penny dies at 87
dailymail.co.ukBob Penny, an Alabama college professor and actor who performed small roles in movies including Forrest Gump and Sweet Home Alabama, has died at age 87.Penny died on Christmas Day, according to an obituary from Laughlin Service Funeral Home in Huntsville.
No cause of death was given.Born in Anniston in 1935, Penny was a poet who spent three decades as an English professor, mostly teaching poetry and prose at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL.com reported.
Bob Penny, an Alabama college professor and actor who performed small roles in movies including Forrest Gump and Sweet Home Alabama, has died at age 87During the 1980s, Penny found work on the side by acting in TV commercials for a local department store as well as for a United Way campaign in Atlanta.
Penny got deeper into acting after retiring from the university in 1990. 'Then the movies began to come,' Penny told AL.com in 2008. 'I was really lucky.
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