Sonny Shroyer
Acting • Born 1935-08-28
Biography
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.
Filmography
42 credits
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Movie • 2004
Earl
The Farmer
Movie • 1977
Corrigan
Summer of My German Soldier
Movie • 1978
McFee
The Devil and Max Devlin
Movie • 1981
Big Billy Hunniker
The Way Home
Movie • 2010
Ed Walker
Payday
Movie • 1973
Dabney
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Movie • 1997
Enos Strate
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
Movie • 2000
Enos Strate
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Movie • 1978
Carlie
The Longest Yard
Movie • 1974
Tannen
Santa's Magic Book
Movie • 1996
(voice)
The Ernest Green Story
Movie • 1993
Coach Snell
Diggity: A Home at Last
Movie • 2002
Otis Cane
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
Movie • 1996
Dick Sheridan
Forrest Gump
Movie • 1994
Bear Bryant
Freedom Road
Movie • 1979
Jason Hugar
Wild America
Movie • 1997
Bud
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Movie • 2000
Scattered Dreams
Movie • 1993
Sheriff Ashford
The Rainmaker
Movie • 1997
Delbert Birdsong
Dead End
Movie • 2016
Officer Murray
Paradise Falls
Movie • 1997
Bert Kyler
The Rosa Parks Story
Movie • 2002
James F. Blake
The Young Runaways
Movie • 1978
C.L. Doyle
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Movie • 1976
Noah
The Gingerbread Man
Movie • 1998
Chatham County Sheriff
Unconditional
Movie • 2012
Pauly
Gator
Movie • 1976
4th Agent
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Movie • 1977
Lewis Paine
Van Wilder: Freshman Year
Movie • 2009
Coach Bob
Love Crimes
Movie • 1992
Plainclothes Cop
Alice
TV • 1976
American Gothic
TV • 1995
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Willie McCoy
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Mason Davis
Enos
TV • 1980
Enos Strate
The Dukes of Hazzard
TV • 1979
Enos Strate
Rectify
TV • 2013
Mayor Johnny Daggett
The Resident
TV • 2018
Hugh Yokum
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Don York
Matlock
TV • 1986
Hugo Larson