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