Forrest Gump would have been Broadway Joe Namath's teammate and played on Bear Bryant's first national championship team at Alabama. ... Gump played college football at Alabama in the early 1960s.

Was 'Forrest Gump' filmed in Alabama? Gump attends college as "a idiot," with an IQ about 75, and in the novel he's a muscular 6-foot, 6-inch, 242 pound man instead of Hollywood's gangly Hanks ...

Forrest Gump would have been Broadway Joe Namath's teammate and played on Bear Bryant's first national championship team at Alabama. ... Gump played college football at Alabama in the early 1960s.

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Forrest Gump has an amazing soundtrack. It's filled with classics from the 1950s through the 1980s. There are too many to put on this one list, but here are a bunch that we absolutely love.

Jennifer Hyland Wang tries to outsmart “Forrest Gump” by arguing that it idealizes racism out of its vision of 1950s Alabama — but the movie opens with a gag about Forrest not understanding ...

Bob Penny, a character actor with roles in "Forrest Gump" and "Sweet Home Alabama," died Sunday. He was 87. Penny's cause of death was not revealed in an online obituary shared by the Laughlin ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — 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 ...

Forrest Gump would have been Broadway Joe Namath's teammate and played on Bear Bryant's first national championship team at Alabama. ... Gump played college football at Alabama in the early 1960s.

Character actor Bob Penny, who had roles in box-office hits "Forrest Gump" and "Sweet Home Alabama," died on Christmas Day at the age of 87. Born Robert Lynn Penny in Anniston, Alabama, on June 29 ...

Huntsville, Ala. — 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.

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. Skip Navigation.