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.
Known for
The Resident
Hugh Yokum
Alice
Knots Landing
Willie McCoy
The Dukes of Hazzard
Enos Strate
The Love Boat
Don York
American Gothic
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mason Davis
Matlock
Hugo Larson
Forrest Gump
College Football Coach
Rectify
Mayor Johnny Daggett
Enos
Enos Strate
E! True Hollywood Story
The Rainmaker
Delbert Birdsong
The Gingerbread Man
Chatham County Sheriff
The Longest Yard
Tannen
Unconditional
Pauly
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Earl
The Way Home
Ed Walker
Wild America
Bud
Gator
4th Agent
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
Enos Strate
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Enos Strate
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Carlie
Freedom Road
Jason Hugar
The Devil and Max Devlin
Big Billy Hunniker
Payday
Dabney
The Rosa Parks Story
James F. Blake
The Ernest Green Story
Coach Snell
Summer of My German Soldier
McFee
The Farmer
Corrigan
The Young Runaways
C.L. Doyle
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Scattered Dreams
Sheriff Ashford
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Noah
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
Dick Sheridan
Paradise Falls
Bert Kyler
Diggity: A Home at Last
Otis Cane
Dead End
Officer Murray
Santa's Magic Book
(voice)