Cast & creator
Sonny Shroyer
Best known for The Love Boat, Knots Landing, The Resident
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.
Also known as: Otis Burt Shroyer Jr.
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film credits
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television credits
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1951–2018 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (42)
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The Love Boat
Don York
1977
Knots Landing
Willie McCoy
1979
The Resident
Hugh Yokum
2018
Matlock
Hugo Larson
1986
Alice
1976
Forrest Gump
Bear Bryant
1994
The Dukes of Hazzard
Enos Strate
1979
Rectify
Mayor Johnny Daggett
2013
American Gothic
1995
The Rainmaker
Delbert Birdsong
1997
Enos
Enos Strate
1980
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mason Davis
1951
The Longest Yard
Tannen
1974
Van Wilder: Freshman Year
Coach Bob
2009
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Summer of My German Soldier
McFee
1978
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Earl
2004
The Gingerbread Man
Chatham County Sheriff
1998
Gator
4th Agent
1976
The Ernest Green Story
Coach Snell
1993
Wild America
Bud
1997
The Devil and Max Devlin
Big Billy Hunniker
1981
The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!
Enos Strate
1997
The Rosa Parks Story
James F. Blake
2002
The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood
Enos Strate
2000
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
Carlie
1978
The Young Runaways
C.L. Doyle
1978
Love Crimes
Plainclothes Cop
1992
The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
Larry Summer
2000
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Noah
1976
Diggity: A Home at Last
Otis Cane
2002
Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story
Dick Sheridan
1996
Unconditional
Pauly
2012
The Way Home
Ed Walker
2010
Freedom Road
Jason Hugar
1979
Scattered Dreams
Sheriff Ashford
1993
The Lincoln Conspiracy
Lewis Paine
1977
Paradise Falls
Bert Kyler
1997
Payday
Dabney
1973
The Farmer
Corrigan
1977
Dead End
Officer Murray
2016
Santa's Magic Book
(voice)
1996