Sonny Shroyer
Acting
Born: August 28, 1935 (age 91) · Valdosta, Georgia, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Forrest Gump
1994
The Rainmaker
1997
The Resident
2018
A Love Song for Bobby Long
2004
Van Wilder: Freshman Year
2009
The Dukes of Hazzard
1979
The Longest Yard
1974
Rectify
2013
The Love Boat
1977
The Gingerbread Man
1998
Matlock
1986
Wild America
1997
Photos (1)
Movies (31)
Forrest Gump
Bear Bryant
The Rainmaker
Delbert Birdsong
The Longest Yard
Tannen
Van Wilder: Freshman Year
Coach Bob
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Earl
The Devil and Max Devlin
Big Billy Hunniker
Gator
4th Agent
The Gingerbread Man
Chatham County Sheriff
Wild America
Bud
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Carlie
The Rosa Parks Story
James F. Blake
The Ernest Green Story
Coach Snell
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
Enos Strate
Summer of My German Soldier
McFee
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Enos Strate
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
Dick Sheridan
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
2000
Love Crimes
Plainclothes Cop
Diggity: A Home at Last
Otis Cane
Unconditional
Pauly
The Young Runaways
C.L. Doyle
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Noah
Freedom Road
Jason Hugar
The Way Home
Ed Walker
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Lewis Paine
Scattered Dreams
Sheriff Ashford
The Farmer
Corrigan
Paradise Falls
Bert Kyler
Payday
Dabney
Santa's Magic Book
(voice)
Dead End
Officer Murray
TV Shows (11)
The Love Boat
Don York · 1 eps
Knots Landing
Willie McCoy · 1 eps
The Resident
Hugh Yokum · 1 eps
Matlock
Hugo Larson · 1 eps
Alice
1 eps
The Dukes of Hazzard
Enos Strate · 101 eps
Rectify
Mayor Johnny Daggett · 1 eps
American Gothic
1 eps
Enos
Enos Strate · 18 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mason Davis · 1 eps
E! True Hollywood Story
1 eps