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.
A Love Song for Bobby Long
(Earl)
The Farmer
(Corrigan)
Summer of My German Soldier
(McFee)
The Devil and Max Devlin
(Big Billy Hunniker)
The Way Home
(Ed Walker)
Payday
(Dabney)
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
(Enos Strate)
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
(Enos Strate)
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
(Carlie)
The Longest Yard
(Tannen)
Santa's Magic Book
((voice))
The Ernest Green Story
(Coach Snell)
Diggity: A Home at Last
(Otis Cane)
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
(Dick Sheridan)
Forrest Gump
(College Football Coach)
Freedom Road
(Jason Hugar)
Wild America
(Bud)
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Scattered Dreams
(Sheriff Ashford)
The Rainmaker
(Delbert Birdsong)
Dead End
(Officer Murray)
Paradise Falls
(Bert Kyler)
The Rosa Parks Story
(James F. Blake)
The Young Runaways
(C.L. Doyle)
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
(Noah)
The Gingerbread Man
(Chatham County Sheriff)
Unconditional
(Pauly)
Gator
(4th Agent)
Alice
American Gothic
Matlock
E! True Hollywood Story
Knots Landing
(Willie McCoy)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Mason Davis)
Enos
(Enos Strate)
The Dukes of Hazzard
(Enos Strate)
Rectify
(Mayor Johnny Daggett)
The Resident
(Hugh Yokum)
The Love Boat
(Don York)