Charles Cyphers

Actor Jul 28 (died age 85) Niagara Falls, New York, USA 1965–2021 (56 year career)

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Biography

Charles Cyphers (July 28, 1939 – August 4, 2024) was an American actor who had starred in many films and on television. He was known in the horror movie community for his work in the films of John Carpenter, especially his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in Carpenter's 1978 hit horror movie Halloween. He reprised his role in Halloween II (1981) and Halloween Kills (2021).

Known For

Film

Halloween

Brackett

Film

Escape from New York

Secretary of State

Film

Assault on Precinct 13

Starker

Film

Halloween Kills

Leigh Brackett

Film

Halloween II

Sheriff Leigh Brackett

Film

The Fog

Dan O'Bannon

Film

Major League

Charlie Donovan

Film

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Interrogator

Filmography

Acting (81)

Movies (39)

Halloween Kills

as Leigh Brackett

Grizzly II: Revenge

as Steve

The Night She Came Home!!

2013

as Self

9.6

Halloween: The Inside Story

as Self

Methodic

as Chief Sperranza

Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest

2003

as Self / Leigh Brackett

Critical Mass

as Henderson

Mach 2

as Harry Olson

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

as Interrogator

Major League

as Charlie Donovan

Gleaming the Cube

as Harvey McGill

Big Bad Mama II

as Stark

Hunter's Blood

as Woody

Little House: Look Back to Yesterday

as Zack Taylor

Memorial Day

as Jack Ruskin

Death Wish II

as Donald Kay

The Executioner's Song

as Noall Wootton

Honkytonk Man

as Stubbs

Escape from New York

as Secretary of State

7.0

Halloween II

1981

as Sheriff Leigh Brackett

The Fog

as Dan O'Bannon

Borderline

as Ski

Friendly Fire

as Tom Loomis

A Force of One

as Dr. Eppis

The Onion Field

as Chaplain

Elvis

as Sam Phillips

Halloween

as Brackett

Coming Home

as Pee Wee

Someone's Watching Me!

as Gary Hunt

Gray Lady Down

Our Town

as Sam Craig

MacArthur

as General Harding

Vigilante Force

as Perry Beal

Assault on Precinct 13

as Starker

Truck Turner

as Drunk

The Missiles of October

1974

as Press Photographer

7.5

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One

1974

as Arthur 'Doc' Barker

The Slams

1973

as Nicol (uncredited)

6.4

Stingy Jack

as Sheriff Taggart - age 59

Television (42)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1997

as Coach Carl Marin

8.1

Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher

1996

as Al Yaroker

JAG

as Jesse

Sliders

as Coach Almquist

Murder One

as Patrick McQueen

as Injured Civil-War Reenactor

7.8

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

as Thaddeus Roarke

seaQuest DSV

as Calvin Shelley

Renegade

as Zachary Quinn

California Dreams

as Coach Cotler

The Outsiders

as Tim's Boss

Seinfeld

as Gardner

Mancuso, F.B.I.

China Beach

as The General

Freddy's Nightmares

as Ben Ostroff

Aaron's Way

21 Jump Street

as Team Doctor

Jake and the Fatman

as Benny Kraus

Matlock

as Tom Coyle

Murder, She Wrote

as Lt. Timothy Chance

Night Court

as Leo

Airwolf

as Joe Ganns

Simon & Simon

as Sergeant Lester

Hill Street Blues

as Captain Leder

Hart to Hart

as Lester

Dallas

as Bertram Pogue

Lou Grant

as Jerry Baldwin

Roots

as Fred Drake

The Betty White Show

as Hugo Muncy

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

1977

as Michael Brandon

Charlie's Angels

as Haller

Alice

The Bionic Woman

The Tony Randall Show

1976

as Eddie Foxworth

6.2

Gibbsville

1976

as Wingfield

Starsky & Hutch

as Arthur Cole

Wonder Woman

as Kurt

Isis

as Sam Niles

The Six Million Dollar Man

as Faler

Barnaby Jones

as Mike Hartney

Cannon

The F.B.I.

as Charlie Wicker