Lou Myers
Actor
- Born
- September 26, 1935 · Charleston, West Virginia
- Died
- February 19, 2013 (age 77)
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Lou Myers (September 26, 1935 – February 19, 2013) was an American actor. He was typically typecast as a grumpy old man, but he 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.
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Myers was born in Cabin Creek, 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.
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Known for
It's Kind of a Funny Story
October 8, 2010
The Wedding Planner
January 26, 2001
Volcano
April 25, 1997
Tin Cup
August 16, 1996
Bulworth
May 15, 1998
The Fighting Temptations
September 19, 2003
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
August 14, 1998
Cobb
December 2, 1994
The Passion of Darkly Noon
January 2, 1995
Lackawanna Blues
January 26, 2005
Nobody Knows Anything!
August 24, 2004
The Baby Doll Night
May 28, 2008
Acting19
- 2013Dreams as Mr. Harlan
- 2010It's Kind of a Funny Story as Jimmy
- 2008The Baby Doll Night as Philip
- 2005Lackawanna Blues as Ol' Po Carl
- 2004Nobody Knows Anything! as Blue Smoke Jones
- 2004Sweet Oranges as Mr. King
- 2003The Fighting Temptations as Homer T.
- 2001All About You as Toomie
- 2001The Wedding Planner as Burt Weinberg
- 2000Everything's Jake