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Sonny Shroyer
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.
As actor
Dead End
Unconditional
The Way Home
Van Wilder: Freshman Year
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Diggity: A Home at Last
The Rosa Parks Story
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
The Gingerbread Man
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Wild America
The Rainmaker
Paradise Falls
Santa's Magic Book
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
Forrest Gump
The Ernest Green Story
Scattered Dreams
Love Crimes
The Devil and Max Devlin
Freedom Road
Summer of My German Soldier
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
The Young Runaways
The Farmer
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Gator
The Longest Yard