Jack Eric Williams
- Actor
- Composer
Jack Eric Williams was a promising composer, lyricist, actor, and
teacher who is most remembered for creating the role of Beadle Bamford
in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
In addition to his work as a performer, he wrote many scores for the
theatre, including incidental and dance music. He received the Richard
Rogers award in 1990 from the American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters for his musical Swamp Gas and Shallow Feelings. He died in
1994 from cardiac arrest after several months in a diabetic coma.