People
Sonny Shroyer
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... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Dead End as Officer Murray | 2016-01-01 |
Unconditional as Pauly | 2012-09-21 |
The Way Home as Ed Walker | 2010-10-01 |
A Love Song for Bobby Long as Earl | 2004-09-02 |
The Rosa Parks Story as James F. Blake | 2002-02-24 |
Diggity: A Home at Last as Otis Cane | 2002-01-22 |
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood as Enos Strate | 2000-06-05 |
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | 2000-03-19 |
The Gingerbread Man as Chatham County Sheriff | 1998-01-23 |
The Rainmaker as Delbert Birdsong | 1997-11-18 |
Paradise Falls as Bert Kyler | 1997-11-01 |
Wild America as Bud | 1997-07-02 |
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! as Enos Strate | 1997-04-25 |
Santa's Magic Book as (voice) | 1996-12-15 |
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story as Dick Sheridan | 1996-04-02 |
Forrest Gump as College Football Coach | 1994-06-23 |
Scattered Dreams as Sheriff Ashford | 1993-12-19 |
The Ernest Green Story as Coach Snell | 1993-01-17 |
The Devil and Max Devlin as Big Billy Hunniker | 1981-03-06 |
Freedom Road as Jason Hugar | 1979-10-29 |
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way as Carlie | 1978-12-01 |
Summer of My German Soldier as McFee | 1978-10-30 |
The Young Runaways as C.L. Doyle | 1978-05-28 |
The Farmer as Corrigan | 1977-03-08 |
Gator as 4th Agent | 1976-08-25 |
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys as Noah | 1976-04-22 |
The Longest Yard as Tannen | 1974-08-21 |
Payday as Dabney | 1973-09-22 |