30 Dec, 2022
By FactsWow Team
Alabama professor and actor Bob Penny, who had minor roles in movies like Forrest Gump and Sweet Home Alabama, died at 87.
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According to an obituary from Huntsville's Laughlin Service Funeral Home, Bob Penny died on Christmas Day. The cause of death has not been opened up yet.
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Bob Penny Born in Anniston in 1935, Bob Penny was a poet who spent three decades as an English professor, mostly teaching poetry and prose at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the sources reported.
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During the 1980s, Bob Penny found work on the side acting in TV commercials for a local department store and a United Way campaign in Atlanta.
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Bob Penny got deeper into acting after retiring from the university in 1990. Then the movies began to come; Bob Penny told the sources in 2008; He was lucky. He had these small roles, but they helped pay the mortgage.
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Bob Penny's other film credits included the movies Mississippi Burning, My Cousin Vinny and The Legend of Bagger Vance, and The TV series In the Heat of the Night.
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When he wasn't acting in films, Bob Penny took part in theatre productions in Birmingham, where he performed onstage in plays, including The Odd Couple and Don Juan in Hell.
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Bob Penny captured our hearts at the Birmingham Festival Theater and put everything into his work. She added that Bob Penny has always been an actor and fun.
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