Forrest Gump actor Robert “Bob” Lynn Penny is dead at the age of 87. The character actor scored some hits with Sweet Home Alabama and My Cousin Vinny as well. There have been dozens of other appearances in films in TV shows as well. Penny’s career in acting stretches back to the 1980s. (Back then, he appeared on the popular show In the Heat of the Night.) Things began for the actor with some TV commercials in the local Alabama area and that grew into spots for The United Way. His obituary posted by Laughlin Service Funeral Home also talks about his life as a teacher at University of Alabama Birmingham. Penny would teach there for 21 years with students learning Poetry and Prose. The Forrest Gump star would become something of a favorite son in the surrounding theater community. His family has not announced plans for funeral arrangements at this time. Check out what a member of the theater community in Birmingham had to say about Penny’s work.
