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
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Noah
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
as Carlie
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
as Dick Sheridan
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
as Enos Strate
The Longest Yard
as Tannen
The Rainmaker
as Delbert Birdsong
Unconditional
as Pauly
Paradise Falls
as Bert Kyler
The Farmer
as Corrigan
A Love Song for Bobby Long
as Earl
Scattered Dreams
as Sheriff Ashford
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Unknown Role
The Gingerbread Man
as Chatham County Sheriff
Gator
as 4th Agent
Wild America
as Bud
Santa's Magic Book
as (voice)
Dead End
as Officer Murray
The Rosa Parks Story
as James F. Blake
Payday
as Dabney