Bob 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, …
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.
After a 32-year teaching career, Penny retired and pursued film and TV roles, landing small parts in movies including playing Curtis Foy in 1988’s
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