Lou Myers

Biography

Lou Myers was born on September 26, 1935, in Cabin Creek, West Virginia, to Dorothy Jeffries Brown Myers and Otis Louis Myers. He began his career on Broadway as an understudy in "The First Breeze of Summer," later reprising the role for a television adaptation. Myers is perhaps best known for playing Mr. Vernon Gaines in the sitcom "A Different World" and was also an accomplished pianist, co-founding the Tshaka Ensemble Players in Africa.