It’s one of the great movies of all time. “They had 1,500 extras.”Producer Wendy Finerman said on the “Forrest Gump” DVD commentary that most of the crowd was computer-generated.“They were moved around and multiplied, and you got the feeling that you were in the Orange Bowl, or wherever the classic would have been," she said.Shroyer said Zemeckis lined them up on the first five rows of where the camera was looking at Tom Hanks when he caught the football.Now dressed in a crimson blazer and the same houndstooth hat, Shroyer spent several takes screaming at Gump as he returned a kickoff for a touchdown in chaotic fashion. Eric Chesterton When baseball's biggest stars need a haircut, they come to José 'Jordan' López By Before even reading this book, it should be noted that this book is nothing like its film adaptation. At this point, it's hard to find anyone who hasn't seen "Forrest Gump" at one point or another since it debuted in theaters 25 years ago. You miss a word or two sometimes.”Shroyer has a special place in his heart for Alabama, beyond his Bryant connection. “When I say fluke, I guess God wanted me to do it, because he had a hand in it I’m sure.”Already an accomplished actor prior to getting deputized in Hazzard County, Shroyer cut his teeth on screen alongside the late great Burt Reynolds, first in 1973′s “The Longest Yard.” The Valdosta, Ga., native fit right in on the football field having won a couple of state championships in high school and walking on to play for Tom Nugent at Florida State.“I over-acted something terrible,” Shoyer, 83, told us via phone, reminiscing on the screen-time he shared with a living legend.A few cracked ribs and a nights spent in the Georgia State Prison infirmary, Shroyer finished the first of his three projects with Reynolds, followed by “Gator” and “Smokey & the Bandit.”After spending nearly a decade chasing those Duke boys with Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane, Shroyer moved to Atlanta for about 20 years and toiled away on shows like “In the Heat of the Night” and “Love Crimes.” When his father passed away, he went back home to Valdosta before bumping into an old friend and agent at a party.“I want you to read for a part,” she told him, sending him 250 miles away from home to audition for the doctor who diagnoses young Forrest Gump with a spinal condition requiring “magic legs.”“I must have really impressed them because they said, 'We’re going to let you read for the coach now,” said Shroyer, oblivious to which coach they meant.

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