profile image

Sonny Shroyer

Aug 28, 1935 (89 years old) in Valdosta, Georgia, USA

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

poster
The Resident
Hugh Yokum
poster
The Love Boat
Don York
poster
Knots Landing
Willie McCoy
poster
Matlock
Hugo Larson
poster
Forrest Gump
College Football Coach
poster
Alice
poster
The Dukes of Hazzard
Enos Strate
poster
Rectify
Mayor Johnny Daggett
poster
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mason Davis
poster
American Gothic

Credits