Actor Bob Penny, who scored minor roles within the movies “Forrest Gump” and “Sweet Home Alabama,” has died.
Bob handed away in Huntsville, Alabama on Christmas Day, in response to an internet obit from Laughlin Service Funeral Home. His reason for dying was not disclosed.
Penny was a bit half actor in dozens of movies and TV exhibits throughout his lengthy profession stretching again to the ’80s. Some of his film credit embrace, “Mississippi Burning,” “My Cousin Vinny” and “The Legend of Bagger Vance.” He performed a “crony” in “Forrest Gump,” and a bumbling, small-town lawyer in “Sweet Home Alabama.” He additionally landed a job within the TV collection “In the Heat of the Night.”
He started his performing profession doing TV commercials for an area division retailer and advert campaigns for The United Way.
Bob was 87.
RIP
