'Enos' spin-off no fizzer

Press, 21 December 1981, Page 16

'Enos ' spin-off no fizzer

Sonny Shroyer, who leads in “Enos” (Two. today), the spin-off from “The Dukes of Hazzard,” comes from Valdosta, Georgia. After college Shroyer worked in a clothing store in Atlanta, then switched to the Ford Company, expediting new car deliveries. It was at this point that a photogra-.

pher looking for a “football player type” to model for an ad, selected Sonny who agreed to do it on the spur of the moment. That, basically, is how Sonny started in show-biz. In 1972 he got two movie roles, without leaving Georgia. Two films were shooting there on location

and he got small parts in both. They were “Payday,” with Rip Torn, and “Like A Crow On A June Bug,” with Mercedes McCambridge.

He continued to keep busy with a regular job but was hired for a role in “The Longest Yard.” He held on, and the.acting jobs came more steadily: Walt Disney’s, “The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance,” “They Went That-A-Way and That-A-Way.” “Smokey And The Bandit” and “Greased Lightning.”

In the summer of 1980, before starting the “Enos” series. Sonny co-starred with Bill Cosby and Elliott Gould in Disney's, “The Devil ..and Max Devlin.”

He has also appeared in the “Freedom Road” miniseries (starring Mohammed Ali and Kris Kristofferson) and the television specials “The Summer of My German Soldier,” with Kristy McNichol; “King" and “The Lincoln Conspiracy.”

In the meantime, he’s made sure that his contract for the new show carries the stipulation that if for any reason it isn’t a success, he'll be allowed to return to his old stomping grounds of Hazzard County, to resume the role of Enos in “The Dukes of Hazzard.”