Sonny Shroyer
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Otis Burt "Sonny" Shroyer Jr. (born August 28, 1935) is an American retired actor who has appeared in various television and film roles. He is best known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Enos Strate in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard. He also starred in the short-lived spin-off series Enos based around his Dukes of Hazzard character. Sonny Shroyer was born in Valdosta, Georgia, a small city on the Georgia-Florida border. He grew up steeped in the traditions of the deep South, working 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
Credits
Forrest Gump (1994)
as Bear Bryant
The Longest Yard (1974)
as Tannen
The Rainmaker (1997)
as Delbert Birdsong
Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009)
as Coach Bob
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
as Earl
Wild America (1997)
as Bud
Gator (1976)
as 4th Agent
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
as Chatham County Sheriff
Love Crimes (1992)
as Plainclothes Cop
Summer of My German Soldier (1978)
as McFee
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000)
as Enos Strate
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
as Big Billy Hunniker
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997)
as Enos Strate
Freedom Road (1979)
as Jason Hugar
The Way Home (2010)
as Ed Walker
Unconditional (2012)
as Pauly
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story (2000)
Actor
The Young Runaways (1978)
as C.L. Doyle
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
as James F. Blake
The Ernest Green Story (1993)
as Coach Snell
The Farmer (1977)
as Corrigan
Payday (1973)
as Dabney
The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
as Lewis Paine
Scattered Dreams (1993)
as Sheriff Ashford
Diggity: A Home at Last (2002)
as Otis Cane
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
as Carlie
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976)
as Noah
Paradise Falls (1997)
as Bert Kyler
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story (1996)
as Dick Sheridan
Dead End (2016)
as Officer Murray
Santa's Magic Book (1996)
as (voice)