VIDEO: Broadway's Edmund Lyndeck, SWEENEY TODD's Original Judge Turpin, Reported Dead at 90

Social media posts are reporting of the death of beloved and admired Broadway character actor Edmund Lyndeck, at age 90.

Having made his Broadway debut in THE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1943, Lyndeck created the roles of Rev. John Witherspoon in 1776 and Cinderella's Father in INTO THE WOODS, but was best known as the original Judge Turpin in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's SWEENEY TODD.

Below is a clip of Lyndeck and George Hearn performing "Pretty Women" from that production.