
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1935-08-28
Place of Birth
Valdosta, Georgia, USA
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 business.
Known For

Forrest Gump
as College Football Coach

The Rainmaker
as Delbert Birdsong

The Resident
as Hugh Yokum

A Love Song for Bobby Long
as Earl

The Dukes of Hazzard
as Enos Strate

The Longest Yard
as Tannen

Rectify
as Mayor Johnny Daggett

The Love Boat
as Don York

The Gingerbread Man
as Chatham County Sheriff

Matlock
as Hugo Larson