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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

39

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-08-28 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Valdosta, Georgia, USA

Also Known As

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, and Shroyer finished his education at the University of Georgia, where he earned his degree in business.

Known For

Acting

The Farmer

1977

The Farmer

as

Corrigan

The Devil and Max Devlin

1981

The Devil and Max Devlin

as

Big Billy Hunniker

The Way Home

2010

The Way Home

as

Ed Walker

Payday

1973

Payday

as

Dabney

The Longest Yard

1974

The Longest Yard

as

Tannen

Santa's Magic Book

1996

Santa's Magic Book

as

(voice)

The Ernest Green Story

1993

The Ernest Green Story

as

Coach Snell

Forrest Gump

1994

Forrest Gump

as

College Football Coach

Freedom Road

1979

Freedom Road

as

Jason Hugar

Wild America

1997

Wild America

as

Bud

Scattered Dreams

1993

Scattered Dreams

as

Sheriff Ashford

The Rainmaker

1997

The Rainmaker

as

Delbert Birdsong

Dead End

2016

Dead End

as

Officer Murray

Paradise Falls

1997

Paradise Falls

as

Bert Kyler

The Rosa Parks Story

2002

The Rosa Parks Story

as

James F. Blake

The Young Runaways

1978

The Young Runaways

as

C.L. Doyle

The Gingerbread Man

1998

The Gingerbread Man

as

Chatham County Sheriff

Unconditional

2012

Unconditional

as

Pauly

Gator

1976

Gator

as

4th Agent

Knots Landing

Knots Landing

as

Willie McCoy

Enos

Enos

as

Enos Strate

Rectify

Rectify

as

Mayor Johnny Daggett

The Resident

The Resident

as

Hugh Yokum

The Love Boat

The Love Boat

as

Don York

Matlock

Matlock

as

Hugo Larson

Production

Crew

Directing