Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
8/28/1935
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...
Known For
Forrest Gump
as Bear Bryant
The Rainmaker
as Delbert Birdsong
Wild America
as Bud
The Farmer
as Corrigan
Gator
as 4th Agent
Freedom Road
as Jason Hugar
The Longest Yard
as Tannen
Payday
as Dabney
The Devil and Max Devlin
as Big Billy Hunniker
Unconditional
as Pauly
The Gingerbread Man
as Chatham County Sheriff
The Way Home
as Ed Walker
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
as Dick Sheridan
A Love Song for Bobby Long
as Earl
The Young Runaways
as C.L. Doyle
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
as Enos Strate
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
as Enos Strate
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Noah
Scattered Dreams
as Sheriff Ashford
The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Lewis Paine