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Poet-professor Bob Penny who after retirement appeared in small parts in projects including Forrest Gump, Sweet Home Alabama and the TV series In the Heat of the Night, died aged 87 on December 25.

He was credited as a “crony” in the 1994 film “Forrest Gump,” and played a bumbling, small-town lawyer in “Sweet Home Alabama,” released in 2002.

The professor-turned-actor appeared in multiple Academy Award-nominated and -winning films including 'My Cousin Vinny' and 'Fried Green Tomatoes.'

Bob Penny, who appeared in movies Sweet Home Alabama and Forrest Gump, has died on Sunday, Christmas Day. He was 87.Pennys cause of death was not revealed in an online obituary shared by the...

Dr. Robert "Bob" Lynn Penny, an actor who played roles in "My Cousin Vinny" and "Mississippi Burning," died Sunday in Alabama at the age of 87.

Dr. Robert "Bob" Lynn Penny, an actor who played roles in "My Cousin Vinny" and "Mississippi Burning," died Sunday in Alabama at the age of 87.

The college professor-turned-actor died in Huntsville, Alabama on Christmas Day.

Actor Bob Penny, who scored small roles in films "Forrest Gump" and "Sweet Home Alabama," died on Dec. 25.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/bob-penny-bit-actor-in-numerous-hollywood-films-dies-at-87/"></div>HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — 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. Penny died on Christmas Day, according to an obituary from Laughlin Service Funeral Home in Huntsville. No cause of death was given. Born in...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — 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.