Charles Cyphers
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.
Halloween
as BrackettFifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a...
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Escape from New York
as Secretary of StateIn a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled...
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Halloween II
as Sheriff Leigh BrackettAfter failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former...
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Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its...
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Halloween Kills
as Leigh BrackettMichael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she...
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Death Wish II
as Donald KayPaul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and...
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Major League
as Charlie DonovanWhen Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to...
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Assault on Precinct 13
as StarkerThe lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers...
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
as InterrogatorAn LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies....
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MacArthur
as General HardingThe film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time...
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Honkytonk Man
as StubbsDuring the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his...
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Elvis
as Sam PhillipsThis biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to...
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Someone's Watching Me!
as Gary HuntA young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an...
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Coming Home
as Pee WeeIn 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate...
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Gleaming the Cube
as Harvey McGillAn Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools...
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Grizzly II: Revenge
as SteveAll hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers,...
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The Onion Field
as ChaplainAn LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal...
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A Force of One
as Dr. EppisKarate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after...
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Gray Lady Down
as uncreditedThe USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision...
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Truck Turner
as DrunkTruck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are...
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The Missiles of October
as Press PhotographerBased in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy...
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Big Bad Mama II
as StarkWilma McClatchie and her daughters return to a life of crime and vow vengeance against the evil...
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The Slams
as Nicol (uncredited)Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
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The Executioner's Song
as Noall WoottonIn this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a...
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Borderline
as SkiJeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has...
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Vigilante Force
as Perry BealIn a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous,...
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Hunter's Blood
as WoodyFive "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and...
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Mach 2
as Harry OlsonA Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to...
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Critical Mass
as HendersonJeffers works security at a nuclear power plant. The plant is being decommissioned, and a...
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Halloween: The Inside Story
as SelfThis feature-length documentary takes a look at one of the most successful film franchises of...
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Michael BrandonThe bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have...
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Friendly Fire
as Tom LoomisIn March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed...
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Our Town
as Sam Craig3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
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The Night She Came Home!!
as SelfA short documentary, done by John Marsh and Kelly Curtis, explores Curtis’ relationship to the...
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Stingy Jack
as Sheriff Taggart - age 59After a near-fatal car accident, Kaitlyn awakens and is horrified to find her son, Milo, missing...
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The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
as Arthur 'Doc' BarkerJ. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.
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Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
as Self / Leigh BrackettUsing original interviews with director John Carpenter, stars Jamie Lee Curtis and P.J. Soles,...
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Methodic
as Chief SperranzaMethodic tells the story of a boy who becomes demonically possessed by an ominous presence known...
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Seinfeld
as GardnerA stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in...
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JAG
as JesseHarmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge...
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Starsky & Hutch
as Arthur ColeStreetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...
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Starsky & Hutch
as Medical Examiner DelaneyStreetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...
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Starsky & Hutch
as Detective WebsterStreetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Coach Carl MarinInto every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will...
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ER
as Injured Civil-War ReenactorER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...
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Dallas
as Bertram PogueThe world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all....
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Murder, She Wrote
as Lt. Timothy ChanceAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...
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Renegade
as Zachary QuinnFramed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while...
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21 Jump Street
as Team Doctor21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to...
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Hill Street Blues
as Captain LederA realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Hill Street Blues
as Commander #1A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
as uncreditedA much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty...
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Charlie's Angels
as HallerBeautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could...
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Airwolf
as Joe GannsAs part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot...
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Hart to Hart
as LesterWealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife,...
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Night Court
as LeoAn eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on...
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Sliders
as Coach AlmquistIn his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite...
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The Six Million Dollar Man
as FalerFollow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent,...
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Simon & Simon
as Sergeant LesterSimon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24,...
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Matlock
as Tom CoyleMatlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of...
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seaQuest DSV
as Calvin ShelleyIn the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans...
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Cannon
as uncreditedCannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26,...
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The F.B.I.
as Charlie WickerThe F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...
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Barnaby Jones
as Brad KirtzBarnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as...
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Barnaby Jones
as Mike HartneyBarnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as...
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Barnaby Jones
as Jimmy DorsetBarnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as...
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Barnaby Jones
as Bill GarwoodBarnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as...
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Lou Grant
as Jerry BaldwinThe trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his...
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The Bionic Woman
as uncreditedAfter fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first...
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Murder One
as Patrick McQueen (uncredited)Theodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law...
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Murder One
as Patrick McQueenTheodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law...
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China Beach
as The GeneralDateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and...
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Roots
as Fred DrakeThe epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in...
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Alice
as uncreditedAlice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on...
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Jake and the Fatman
as Benny KrausJake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L....
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Wonder Woman
as KurtWith the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of...
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Freddy's Nightmares
as Ben OstroffThe evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this...
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Mancuso, F.B.I.
as uncreditedMancuso, F.B.I. is a crime drama which was aired by NBC as part of its 1989-90...
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California Dreams
as Coach CotlerCalifornia Dreams is an American teen-oriented sitcom that aired from 1992 to 1996 on Saturday...
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The Outsiders
as Tim's BossThe story of the Curtis brothers, a group of troubled teens in 1960s Oklahoma, struggling to...
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Isis
as Sam NilesThe Secrets of Isis is the syndicated title of a live action CBS television series produced by...
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The Tony Randall Show
as Eddie FoxworthWalter Franklin is a somewhat less-than-magisterial Philadelphia judge put upon by an assortment...
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Aaron's Way
as uncreditedAaron's Way is a 1988 American family drama series that aired on NBC. The series stars Merlin...
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Gibbsville
as WingfieldGibbsville is an American drama television series starring John Savage and Gig Young that aired...
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