Lou Myers

Lou Myers Biography

Lou Leabengula Myers (September 26, 1935 " February 19, 2013) was an American actor. Myers was typically typecast as a grumpy old man, but he has appeared in many movies, stage plays television sitcoms, and dramas. He got his first break as an understudy in the Broadway play, The First Breeze of Summer as Reverend Mosley. He is perhaps best known as the feisty Mr. Vernon Gaines in the sitcom A Different World. Myers was also an accomplished pianist.

Myers was born in Chesapeake, West Virginia, the son of Dorothy Jeffries (née Brown). Myers died at the Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia after battling pneumonia for several months.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1991	Missing Pieces	Attendant
1994	Cobb	Willie
1995	The Piano Lesson	Wining Boy
1995	The Passion of Darkly Noon	Quincy
1996	Tin Cup	Clint
1997	Volcano	Pastor Lake
1998	Goodbye Lover	Police Captain
	Bulworth	Uncle Tyrone
	How Stella Got Her Groove Back	Uncle Ollie
1999	The Big Confession	Tommy
1999	The Stand-In	Half-Step Wilson
2000	Everything's Jake	Abe
2001	All About You	Toomie
2001	The Wedding Planner	Burt Weinberg
2003	Nobody Knows Anything!	Blue Smoke Jones
2003	The Fighting Temptations	Homer T.
2004	Team Player	Coach Lou
2007	Kings of the Evening	Counter Man
2013	DREAMS 2013"	Mr. Harlan

Awards

Myers won an NAACP Image Award for his role as the Stool Pigeon in the August Wilson play, King Hedley II. He also won the Off-Broadway AUDELCO Award for his role in the play, Fat Tuesday.

In 2005 the Appalachian Education Initiative listed Myers as one of 50 "Outstanding Creative Artists" from the State of West Virginia and featured him in their coffeetable book "Art & Soul".

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