Sonny Shroyer
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Rainmaker
as Delbert Birdsong 1997
A Love Song for Bobby Long
as Earl 2004
The Longest Yard
as Tannen 1974
The Gingerbread Man
as Chatham County Sheriff 1998
Wild America
as Bud 1997
Gator
as 4th Agent 1976
Unconditional
as Pauly 2012
The Rosa Parks Story
as James F. Blake 2002
The Devil and Max Devlin
as Big Billy Hunniker 1981
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
as Enos Strate 2000
The Way Home
as Ed Walker 2010
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
as Enos Strate 1997
Payday
as Dabney 1973
The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Lewis Paine 1977
Summer of My German Soldier
as McFee 1978
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
as Carlie 1978