Sonny Shroyer
Sonny Shroyer was born in Valdosta, Georgia, a small city on the Georgia-Florida border. Shroyer, whose given name is Otis Burt Shroyer Jr., grew up steeped in the traditions of the deep South. He worked in the tobacco warehouses pushing tobacco buggies and helped his father in their fruit stand-ice cream parlor business. His prowess in high school football landed him a football scholarship at Florida State University (he later ended up playing football in the movie The Longest Yard (1974) with another FSU football player, Burt Reynolds). However, his football career was cut short by an injury, and Shroyer finished his education at the University of Georgia, where he earned his degree in business.
Acted in
The Resident
2018
as Hugh Yokum
Dead End
2016
as Officer Murray
Rectify
2013
as Mayor Johnny Daggett
Unconditional
2012
as Pauly
The Way Home
2010
as Ed Walker
A Love Song for Bobby Long
2004
as Earl
The Rosa Parks Story
2002
as James F. Blake
Diggity: A Home at Last
2002
as Otis Cane
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
2000
as Enos Strate
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
2000
The Gingerbread Man
1998
as Chatham County Sheriff
The Rainmaker
1997
as Delbert Birdsong
Paradise Falls
1997
as Bert Kyler
Wild America
1997
as Bud
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
1997
as Enos Strate
Santa's Magic Book
1996
as (voice)
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
1996
as Dick Sheridan
American Gothic
1995
Forrest Gump
1994
as College Football Coach
Scattered Dreams
1993
as Sheriff Ashford
The Ernest Green Story
1993
as Coach Snell
Matlock
1986
as Hugo Larson
The Devil and Max Devlin
1981
as Big Billy Hunniker
Enos
1980
as Enos Strate
Knots Landing
1979
as Willie McCoy
Freedom Road
1979
as Jason Hugar
The Dukes of Hazzard
1979
as Enos Strate
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
1978
as Carlie
Summer of My German Soldier
1978
as McFee
The Young Runaways
1978
as C.L. Doyle
The Love Boat
1977
as Don York
The Farmer
1977
as Corrigan
Alice
1976
Gator
1976
as 4th Agent
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
as Noah
The Longest Yard
1974
as Tannen
Payday
1973
as Dabney
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Mason Davis