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It was the actor Bruce Myers’s voice, above all, that people tended to remember. “His deep lion’s voice will resonate no more,” was how the French newspaper Le Monde opened its tribute to Mr. Myers, who died of the new coronavirus in Paris on April 15 at 78.

A favorite of the great international director Peter Brook, with whom he worked for nearly 50 years, Mr. Myers, with his elegant diction and reverberant tones, inspired comparisons to the famously mellifluous John Gielgud.

Writing about Mr. Myers’s performance in an evening of short works directed by Mr. Brook in 2011, Charles McNulty of The Los Angeles Times called him “a human Stradivarius,” with his “lush caress of vowels and precise choreography of consonants.”