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 87.
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. "Then the movies began to come," Penny told AL.com in 2008. "I was really lucky. I had these very small roles, but they sure helped pay the mortgage."
Penny's other film credits included the movies "Mississippi Burning," "My Cousin Vinny" and "The Legend of Bagger Vance," as well as the TV series "In the Heat of the Night."
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good grief try a more gracious headline...character actor Bob Penny dies..
Today is deaths galore
Penny for your thoughts