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 Rainmaker (1997)
as Delbert Birdsong
The Longest Yard (1974)
as Tannen
Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009)
as Coach Bob
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
as Chatham County Sheriff
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
as Earl
Gator (1976)
as 4th Agent
Wild America (1997)
as Bud
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
as Big Billy Hunniker
Unconditional (2012)
as Pauly
The Young Runaways (1978)
as C.L. Doyle
The Way Home (2010)
as Ed Walker
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
as James F. Blake
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000)
as Enos Strate
Love Crimes (1992)
as Plainclothes Cop
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997)
as Enos Strate
The Ernest Green Story (1993)
as Coach Snell
Summer of My German Soldier (1978)
as McFee
Freedom Road (1979)
as Jason Hugar
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
as Carlie
The Farmer (1977)
as Corrigan
Scattered Dreams (1993)
as Sheriff Ashford
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story (2000)
Actor
The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
as Lewis Paine
Payday (1973)
as Dabney
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story (1996)
as Dick Sheridan
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976)
as Noah
Diggity: A Home at Last (2002)
as Otis Cane
Paradise Falls (1997)
as Bert Kyler
Dead End (2016)
as Officer Murray
Santa's Magic Book (1996)
as (voice)