Edmund Lyndeck

Edmund Lyndeck was an American actor who worked in musical theater. He spent years in regional and stock productions before reaching Broadway in the original 1776, playing John Witherspoon, Charles Thomson, Stephen Hopkins and Dr. Lyman Hall, and touring as John Dickinson. His signature part was Judge Turpin in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which he originated and later played on the first national tour, a 1980 television broadcast and a 1994 staging at North Shore Music Theatre; his Los Angeles tour performance won a Drama-Logue Award. He also originated Cinderella's Father in Sondheim's Into the Woods and later took over the Mysterious Man. Other Broadway shows included Mrs. Warren's Profession, A Doll's Life and Merlin, and he played Sir Danvers Carew in the 1990 premiere of Jekyll & Hyde. On screen, he was a contract player on The Doctors, appeared in Road Trip (2000) and Big Daddy (1999), and did voice work for documentaries.