Career
After working as a gold miner as a young man, he appeared in over 140 films between 1926 and 1962. Pennick also drilled the military extras in John Wayne"s The Alamo (1960). Pennick was born in Portland, Oregon, the son of gold miner Albert R. and Bessie (Murray) Pennick.
Pennick joined the United States Marine Corps and served with the Peking Legation Guard in China in 1912.
He was with the Marines in World War I and reenlisted in the United States Navy in September, 1941, at the age of 45. He was promoted to commissioned warrant officer (chief photographer) in December 1942 and served in the Field Photographic Unit under Commander John Ford.
He died in Manhattan Beach, California at the age of 68.