Bob Penny was a college professor in Alabama who became an actor and worked in Hollywood for almost 30 years. He died on Christmas Day in Huntsville, Alabama. He was 87.
Bob Penny taught English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for 30 years. He taught Poetry and Prose there. Penny was a professor who won awards for teaching and was also a well-known poet in his own right.
After 32 years of teaching, he left the classroom in 1990 to pursue his love of performing. Penny started getting small roles in some well-known classics.
Penny was in more than 30 movies and TV shows during his time in Hollywood. Some of the movies he has worked on are Sweet Home Alabama, Forrest Gump, Mississippi Burning, My Cousin Vinny, and The Legend of Bagger Vance.
Penny has been in TV shows like Higher Education, Drop Dead Diva, Devious Maids, and the TV version of In the Heat of the Night. The last thing he did was have a recurring role on the 2016 TV show Still the King.
Penny has a brother, a sister, six nieces, and a nephew, all of who he is survived by.
