High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jack Pennick (7 December 1895 – 16 August 1964) was an American film actor. After working as a gold miner as a young man, he appeared in over 140 films between 1926 and 1962. Pennick was a leading member of the informal John Ford Stock Company, appearing in dozens of the director`s films. Pennick also drilled the military extras in John Wayne`s The Alamo (1960).