Charles Cyphers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Cyphers (born July 28, 1939) is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television. He is 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 is not related to actor Jon Cypher, alongside whom he played in Hill Street Blues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Cyphers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jul 28, 1939 In Niagara Falls, New York
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 65
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Stingy Jack
- Latest Project:
- Movie Halloween Kills 2021-10-14
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Stingy Jack | Sheriff Taggart - age 59 | 2025 |
| Movie | Halloween Kills | Leigh Brackett | 2021-10-14 |
| Movie | Grizzly II: Revenge | Steve | 2020-02-17 |
| Movie | The Night She Came Home!! | Self | 2013-09-24 |
| Movie | Halloween: The Inside Story | Self | 2010-10-25 |
| Movie | Methodic | Chief Sperranza | 2007-10-19 |
| Movie | Mach 2 | Harry Olson | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Critical Mass | Henderson | 2001-07-04 |
| Series | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Unknown | 1997-03-10 |
| Series | Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher | Al Yaroker | 1996-08-28 |
| Series | Sliders | Unknown | 1995-03-22 |
| Series | Murder One | Unknown | 1995-09-20 |
| Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
| Movie | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 | Interrogator | 1993-02-04 |
| Series | seaQuest DSV | Calvin Shelley | 1993-09-12 |
| Series | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Unknown | 1993-09-12 |
| Movie | Gleaming the Cube | Harvey McGill | 1989-01-13 |
| Series | Mancuso, F.B.I. | Unknown | 1989-10-13 |
| Movie | Major League | Charlie Donovan | 1989-02-16 |
| Series | Seinfeld | Unknown | 1989-07-05 |
| Series | Aaron's Way | Unknown | 1988-03-09 |
| Series | China Beach | Unknown | 1988-04-26 |
| Series | Freddy's Nightmares | Ben Ostroff | 1988-10-09 |
| Series | 21 Jump Street | Unknown | 1987-04-12 |
| Movie | Big Bad Mama II | Stark | 1987-10-01 |
| Series | Jake and the Fatman | Unknown | 1987-09-26 |
| Movie | Hunter's Blood | Woody | 1986-09-26 |
| Series | Matlock | Unknown | 1986-03-03 |
| Series | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown | 1984-09-30 |
| Series | Airwolf | Joe Ganns | 1984-01-22 |
| Movie | Memorial Day | Jack Ruskin | 1983-11-23 |
| Movie | Death Wish II | Donald Kay | 1982-02-20 |
| Movie | The Executioner's Song | Noall Wootton | 1982-09-10 |
| Movie | Honkytonk Man | Stubbs | 1982-12-15 |
| Movie | Escape from New York | Secretary of State | 1981-05-23 |
| Series | Hill Street Blues | Unknown | 1981-01-15 |
| Movie | Halloween II | Sheriff Leigh Brackett | 1981-10-30 |
| Series | Simon & Simon | Unknown | 1981-11-24 |
| Movie | The Fog | Dan O'Bannon | 1980-02-07 |
| Movie | Friendly Fire | Tom Loomis | 1980-11-09 |
| Movie | Borderline | Ski | 1980-12-19 |
| Movie | Elvis | Sam Phillips | 1979-02-10 |
| Movie | The Onion Field | Chaplain | 1979-09-09 |
| Movie | A Force of One | Dr. Eppis | 1979-06-01 |
| Movie | Coming Home | Pee Wee | 1978-02-15 |
| Movie | Gray Lady Down | 1978-03-10 | |
| Movie | Someone's Watching Me! | Gary Hunt | 1978-11-29 |
| Movie | Halloween | Brackett | 1978-10-24 |
| Series | Roots | Unknown | 1977-01-23 |
| Movie | MacArthur | General Harding | 1977-07-15 |
| Movie | Our Town | Sam Craig | 1977-05-30 |
| Movie | The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald | Michael Brandon | 1977-09-30 |
| Series | Alice | Unknown | 1976-08-31 |
| Movie | Vigilante Force | Perry Beal | 1976-09-09 |
| Series | The Bionic Woman | Unknown | 1976-01-14 |
| Series | Gibbsville | Unknown | 1976-11-11 |
| Movie | Assault on Precinct 13 | Starker | 1976-10-08 |
| Series | The Tony Randall Show | Unknown | 1976-09-23 |
| Series | Charlie's Angels | Unknown | 1976-09-22 |
| Series | Starsky & Hutch | Unknown | 1975-09-10 |
| Series | Wonder Woman | Unknown | 1975-11-07 |
| Movie | The Missiles of October | Press Photographer | 1974-12-18 |
| Movie | Truck Turner | Drunk | 1974-06-26 |
| Movie | The Slams | Nicol (uncredited) | 1973-09-26 |
| Series | Cannon | Unknown | 1971-09-14 |