Sonny Shroyer

Sonny Shroyer (90)

1935-08-28 | 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.

On Movies

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

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