Along with speaking roles in The Prince (2014)and Making Love (2014)
Jim Bennett was a featured extra in Selma (reporter)(2014) and the
movie 42 (newspaper photographer)(2013) and appeared in several other
motion pictures including Big Fish (2003), Heaven's Fall(2006), The
Grass Harp (1995) and Stay Hungry (1976).
He was a member of the Theater Department as a student at Jacksonville
State University from which he holds a BS degree (1962) and a MA from
the University of Alabama (1980).
A one-time political reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald, he has
served four terms as Alabama secretary of state, two terms as
commissioner of the State Department of Labor, two terms in the Alabama
House of Representatives and three terms as a member of the Alabama
State Senate.