Charles Cyphers
Actor
Born July 28, 1939 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA
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).
Filmography
Stingy Jack
Sheriff Taggart - age 59
Halloween Kills
Leigh Brackett
Grizzly II: Revenge
Steve
The Night She Came Home!!
Self
Halloween: The Inside Story
Self
Methodic
Chief Sperranza
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Self / Leigh Brackett
Critical Mass
Henderson
Mach 2
Harry Olson
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Coach Carl Marin
JAG
Jesse
Murder One
Patrick McQueen
Sliders
Coach Almquist
ER
Injured Civil-War Reenactor
seaQuest DSV
Calvin Shelley
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Thaddeus Roarke
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Interrogator
Renegade
Zachary Quinn
California Dreams
Coach Cotler
The Outsiders
Tim's Boss
Mancuso, F.B.I.
Seinfeld
Gardner
Major League
Charlie Donovan
Gleaming the Cube
Harvey McGill
Freddy's Nightmares
Ben Ostroff
China Beach
The General
Big Bad Mama II
Stark
Jake and the Fatman
Benny Kraus
21 Jump Street
Team Doctor
Hunter's Blood
Woody
Matlock
Tom Coyle
Murder, She Wrote
Lt. Timothy Chance
Airwolf
Joe Ganns
Night Court
Leo
Little House: Look Back to Yesterday
Zack Taylor
Honkytonk Man
Stubbs
The Executioner's Song
Noall Wootton
Death Wish II
Donald Kay
Simon & Simon
Sergeant Lester
Halloween II
Leigh Brackett
Escape from New York
Secretary of State
Hill Street Blues
Captain Leder
Borderline
Ski
Friendly Fire
Tom Loomis
The Fog
Dan O'Bannon
Hart to Hart
Lester
The Onion Field
Chaplain
A Force of One
Dr. Eppis
Elvis
Sam Phillips
Someone's Watching Me!
Gary Hunt
Halloween
Brackett
Dallas
Bertram Pogue
Gray Lady Down
Coming Home
Pee Wee
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Michael Brandon
Lou Grant
Jerry Baldwin
MacArthur
General Harding
Our Town
Sam Craig
Roots
Fred Drake
Gibbsville
Wingfield
Assault on Precinct 13
Starker
The Tony Randall Show
Eddie Foxworth
Charlie's Angels
Haller
Vigilante Force
Perry Beal
Alice
The Bionic Woman
Wonder Woman
Kurt
Starsky & Hutch
Arthur Cole
Isis
Sam Niles
The Missiles of October
Press Photographer
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Arthur 'Doc' Barker
Truck Turner
Drunk
The Six Million Dollar Man
Faler
The Slams
Nicol (uncredited)
Barnaby Jones
Mike Hartney
Cool Breeze
Backstage Police Officer (uncredited)
Cannon
The F.B.I.
Charlie Wicker