Sonny Shroyer

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

The Resident

The Love Boat

Knots Landing

Matlock

Alice

Forrest Gump

The Dukes of Hazzard

Rectify

All Movies (31)

• Dead End2016 · as Officer Murray
• Unconditional2012 · as Pauly
• The Way Home2010 · as Ed Walker
• Van Wilder: Freshman Year2009 · as Coach Bob
• A Love Song for Bobby Long2004 · as Earl
• The Rosa Parks Story2002 · as James F. Blake
• Diggity: A Home at Last2002 · as Otis Cane
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood2000 · as Enos Strate
• The Color of Love: Jacey's Story2000
• The Gingerbread Man1998 · as Chatham County Sheriff
• The Rainmaker1997 · as Delbert Birdsong
• Paradise Falls1997 · as Bert Kyler
• Wild America1997 · as Bud
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!1997 · as Enos Strate
• Santa's Magic Book1996 · as (voice)
• Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story1996 · as Dick Sheridan
• Forrest Gump1994 · as Bear Bryant
• Scattered Dreams1993 · as Sheriff Ashford
• The Ernest Green Story1993 · as Coach Snell
• Love Crimes1992 · as Plainclothes Cop
• The Devil and Max Devlin1981 · as Big Billy Hunniker
• Freedom Road1979 · as Jason Hugar
• They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way1978 · as Carlie
• Summer of My German Soldier1978 · as McFee
• The Young Runaways1978 · as C.L. Doyle
• The Lincoln Conspiracy1977 · as Lewis Paine
• The Farmer1977 · as Corrigan
• Gator1976 · as 4th Agent
• Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys1976 · as Noah
• The Longest Yard1974 · as Tannen
• Payday1973 · as Dabney

All TV Shows (11)

• The Resident2018 · as Hugh Yokum
• Rectify2013 · as Mayor Johnny Daggett
• E! True Hollywood Story1996
• American Gothic1995
• Matlock1986 · as Hugo Larson
• Enos1980 · as Enos Strate
• Knots Landing1979 · as Willie McCoy
• The Dukes of Hazzard1979 · as Enos Strate
• The Love Boat1977 · as Don York
• Alice1976
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Mason Davis