Beadle Bamford

&nbsp Beadle Bamford is a fictional character in the many adaptions of the film, Sweeney Todd. He's mostly the secondary villian or a sidekick to the main antagononist, Judge Turpin.

Character Overview and Apperances
Beadle Bamford more or less aids Judge Turpin, and he does mostly everything he tells him to. The Beadle was the one who ordered the police to arrest Benjamin Barker (Sweeney Todd), on false charges issued by Judge Turpin. The Beadle was also the one who called on Lucy Barker, Benjamin Barker's wife, to invite her to Judge Turpin's ball where she was soon drugged and then raped by Judge Turpin. The Beadle is generally relied on everyone to inspect the health regulations in the city and do other things required by the townspeople.

When Judge Turpin finds Anthony Hope gandering at his ward, Johanna, who is also Bejamin and Lucy Barker's daughter, he orders the Beadle to violently beat Anthony up and teach him a lesson. When the Beadle is seen in a local marketplace, he is asked by Sweeney Todd to be a judge for he and Adolfo Pirelli's shaving challenge and then later declaires Sweeney Todd the winner.

Later on, the Beadle is seen walking with Judge Turpin out of a courtroom after Judge Turpin sentanced a young boy to be hanged by the neck, and he tells the Beadle of his love for Johanna and of his plans to marry the girl. The Beadle is reminded by Sweeney Todd's skill of shaving, and sings Ladies and their Sensitivites, telling Judge Turpin about Sweeney Todd.

Soon, the Beadle is seen coming for health regulations to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop and the smoke coming out of her chiminey. When he arrivies at the pie shop, Sweeney Todd lures him up to the barber shop with the promise of new cologne that 'the ladies with greatly thank him for'.

Beadle Bamford is then killed by Sweeney Todd by a slit to the throat and is then dropped through the trapped door-he is not seen again.

Trivia

 * In the 2007 film adaption of Sweeney Todd-The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Beadle Bamford is portrayed by Timothy Spall