Local actor Bob Elkins dies at 89
WVXU News
April 28, 2022
Actor Bob Elkins, best known as DJ Bobby Day in Sissy Spacek's Academy Award winning Coal Miner's Daughter, died Wednesday in Cold Spring, Ky. He was 89.
After the Loretta Lynn biographical film in 1980, Elkins appeared in Johnny Cash's The Pride Of Jesse Hallam filmed here in 1981; Just Another Stupid Kid with Christine Parks; The Pennsylvania Miners' Story; The Dream Catcher; The War That Made America; Lynda Carter's Tattered Angel and Claire Danes' Homeland TV series.
The West Virginia native, who moved with his family to Covington at age 12, was well known throughout the Cincinnati theater community from appearing in local and community productions and many local films.
ELKINS, Bob (Robert G. Elkins)
Born: 1932, Mt. Hope, West Virginia, U.S.A.
Died: 4/27/2022, Cold Spring, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Bob Elkins’s western – actor:
Dogwood Pass (TV) – 2018 (Pete Hill)
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