Charles Cyphers
Born: 1939-07-28 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Died: 2024-08-04
Known For: Acting
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 this role in the 1981 sequel Halloween II. He was not related to actor Jon Cypher, alongside whom he played in Hill Street Blues.
Filmography
2021
- Halloween Kills as Leigh Brackett
2020
- Grizzly II: Revenge as Steve
2013
- The Night She Came Home!! as Self
2010
- Halloween: The Inside Story as Self
2007
- Methodic as Chief Sperranza
2003
- Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest as Self / Leigh Brackett
2001
- Mach 2 as Harry Olson
- Critical Mass as Henderson
1997
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Coach Carl Marin
1996
- Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher as Al Yaroker
1995
- JAG as Jesse
- Sliders as Coach Almquist
- Murder One as Patrick McQueen (uncredited)
1994
- ER as Injured Civil-War Reenactor
1993
- seaQuest DSV as Calvin Shelley
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Thaddeus Roarke
- National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as Interrogator
1992
- Renegade as Zachary Quinn
- California Dreams as Coach Cotler
1990
- The Outsiders as Tim's Boss
1989
- Seinfeld as Gardner
- Major League as Charlie Donovan
- Mancuso, F.B.I.
- Gleaming the Cube as Harvey McGill
1988
- China Beach as The General
- Freddy's Nightmares as Ben Ostroff
- Aaron's Way
1987
- 21 Jump Street as Team Doctor
- Jake and the Fatman as Benny Kraus
- Big Bad Mama II as Stark
1986
- Matlock as Tom Coyle
- Hunter's Blood as Woody
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Lt. Timothy Chance
- Night Court as Leo
- Airwolf as Joe Ganns
1983
- Memorial Day as Jack Ruskin
- Little House: Look Back to Yesterday as Zack Taylor
1982
- Honkytonk Man as Stubbs
- Death Wish II as Donald Kay
- The Executioner's Song as Noall Wootton
1981
- Hill Street Blues as Captain Leder
- Simon & Simon as Sergeant Lester
- Escape from New York as Secretary of State
- Halloween II as Sheriff Leigh Brackett
1980
- Borderline as Ski
- Friendly Fire as Tom Loomis
- The Fog as Dan O'Bannon
1979
- Hart to Hart as Lester
- Elvis as Sam Phillips
- The Onion Field as Chaplain
- A Force of One as Dr. Eppis
1978
- Dallas as Bertram Pogue
- Halloween as Brackett
- Coming Home as Pee Wee
- Gray Lady Down
- Someone's Watching Me! as Gary Hunt
1977
- Lou Grant as Jerry Baldwin
- Roots as Fred Drake
- Our Town as Sam Craig
- MacArthur as General Harding
- The Betty White Show as Hugo Muncy
- The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald as Michael Brandon
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Haller
- Alice
- The Bionic Woman
- Vigilante Force as Perry Beal
- The Tony Randall Show as Eddie Foxworth
- Assault on Precinct 13 as Starker
- Gibbsville as Wingfield
1975
- Starsky & Hutch as Arthur Cole
- Wonder Woman as Kurt
- Isis as Sam Niles
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Faler
- The Missiles of October as Press Photographer
- Truck Turner as Drunk
- The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One as Arthur 'Doc' Barker
1973
- Barnaby Jones as Brad Kirtz
- The Slams as Nicol (uncredited)
1971
1965
- The F.B.I. as Charlie Wicker