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Sonny Shroyer (Otis B. Shroyer) was born on 28 August, 1935 in Valdosta, Georgia, USA, is an actor,producer. Discover Sonny Shroyer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

Popular As Otis B. Shroyer
Occupation actor,producer
Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 28 August, 1935
Birthday 28 August
Birthplace Valdosta, Georgia, USA
Nationality United States

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Sonny Shroyer Height, Weight & Measurements

At 89 years old, Sonny Shroyer height is 6' 2½" (1.89 m) .

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Height 6' 2½" (1.89 m)
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Who Is Sonny Shroyer's Wife?

His wife is Paula Shroyer (14 December 1953 - present) ( 2 children)

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Wife Paula Shroyer (14 December 1953 - present) ( 2 children)
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Sonny Shroyer Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Sonny Shroyer worth at the age of 89 years old? Sonny Shroyer’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Sonny Shroyer's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Source of Income Actor

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Timeline

1961

In 1961 he posed in football gear for a photographer who was shooting pictures for the back cover of the program for the Georgia-Georgia Tech football game. That picture launched his professional career.

1972

After many more print ads and commercials, Sonny landed his first movie roles in Sixteen (1972) with Mercedes McCambridge and Payday (1973) with Rip Torn.

1974

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.

1976

His movie career blossomed with many more films, including Gator (1976), The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977), The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance (1978), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978) and a TV miniseries, Freedom Road (1979).

1979

While working on "Freedom Road," Shroyer, who had gained quite a reputation for playing a "bad guy", was cast in the role of "Enos," the big-grinned, bumbling, dipstick deputy of The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) television series.

1980

His popularity on the show prompted Warner Brothers and CBS to spin him off into his own series, Enos (1980). "Enos" ran 17 episodes and was nominated for two "Peoples Choice" awards, and for Shroyer as "Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Program. "Shroyer remains active in a variety of television network appearances and feature films.

1981

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1988

Additionally, his credits include television appearances as a disturbed parent on In the Heat of the Night (1988).

1991

Appearances of note have been in the Emmy-winning NBC hit television series I'll Fly Away (1991), where he played bigoted, abusive father Bobby Slocum, and as a possessed ex-deputy sheriff in the television series American Gothic (1995).

1994

He also played University of Alabama head coach Bear Bryant Paramount's smash hit Forrest Gump (1994) with Tom Hanks. Sonny makes numerous benefit appearances, helping out with projects such as the Los Angeles Special Olympics, Muscular Dystrophy, The Cystic Fibrosis Telethon, and the American Cancer Society. He also assisted the "Get High On Life, Not Drugs," sponsored by the Boston Police Department, and recently made a film called "Methamphetamine: Terrorist Attack in South Georgia" produced by friend Bob Brabham.

1998

He has played a smooth-talking ladies man in a Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998) episode and a murderer-rapist in Today's F. B. I.

2004

In July 2004, he was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with Stella Stevens, Andrew Prine, Heather Lowe, Lane Bradbury, and Jeremy Slate.