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

• 2021Halloween Kills — Leigh Brackett
• 2020Grizzly II: Revenge — Steve
• 2007Methodic — Chief Sperranza
• 2006Sin-Jin Smyth — Sheriff Stoops
• 2001Critical Mass — Henderson
• 2001Mach 2 — Harry Olson
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Coach Carl Marin
• Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher — Al Yaroker
• JAG — Jesse
• Murder One — Patrick McQueen, Patrick McQueen (uncredited)
• Sliders — Coach Almquist
• ER — Injured Civil-War Reenactor
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman — Thaddeus Roarke
• 1993National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 — Interrogator
• seaQuest DSV — Calvin Shelley
• California Dreams — Coach Cotler
• Renegade — Zachary Quinn
• The Outsiders — Tim's Boss
• 1989Gleaming the Cube — Harvey McGill
• 1989Major League — Charlie Donovan
• Mancuso, F.B.I.
• Seinfeld — Gardner
• Aaron's Way
• China Beach — The General
• Freddy's Nightmares — Ben Ostroff
• 21 Jump Street — Team Doctor
• 1987Big Bad Mama II — Stark
• Jake and the Fatman — Benny Kraus
• 1986Hunter's Blood — Woody
• Matlock — Tom Coyle
• Airwolf — Joe Ganns
• Murder, She Wrote — Lt. Timothy Chance
• Night Court — Leo
• 1983Little House: Look Back to Yesterday — Zack Taylor
• 1983Memorial Day — Jack Ruskin
• 1982Death Wish II — Donald Kay
• 1982Honkytonk Man — Stubbs
• 1982The Executioner's Song — Noall Wootton
• 1981Escape from New York — Secretary of State
• 1981Halloween II — Leigh Brackett
• Hill Street Blues — Captain Leder, Commander #1
• Simon & Simon — Sergeant Lester
• 1980Borderline — Ski
• 1980Friendly Fire — Tom Loomis
• 1980The Fog — Dan O'Bannon
• 1979A Force of One — Dr. Eppis
• 1979Elvis — Sam Phillips
• Hart to Hart — Lester
• 1979The Onion Field — Chaplain
• 1978Coming Home — Pee Wee
• Dallas — Bertram Pogue
• 1978Gray Lady Down
• 1978Halloween — Brackett
• 1978Someone's Watching Me! — Gary Hunt
• Lou Grant — Jerry Baldwin
• 1977MacArthur — General Harding
• 1977Our Town — Sam Craig
• Roots — Fred Drake
• The Betty White Show — Hugo Muncy
• The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald — Michael Brandon
• Alice
• 1976Assault on Precinct 13 — Starker
• Charlie's Angels — Haller
• Gibbsville — Wingfield
• The Bionic Woman
• The Tony Randall Show — Eddie Foxworth
• 1976Vigilante Force — Perry Beal
• Isis — Sam Niles
• Starsky & Hutch — Arthur Cole, Medical Examiner Delaney, Detective Webster
• Wonder Woman — Kurt
• 1974The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One — Arthur 'Doc' Barker
• 1974The Missiles of October — Press Photographer
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Faler
• 1974Truck Turner — Drunk
• Barnaby Jones — Mike Hartney, Jimmy Dorset, Brad Kirtz, Bill Garwood
• 1973The Slams — Nicol (uncredited)
• 1972Cool Breeze — Backstage Police Officer (uncredited)
• Cannon
• The F.B.I. — Charlie Wicker
• Stingy Jack — Sheriff Taggart - age 59

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2013The Night She Came Home!! — Self
• 2010Halloween: The Inside Story — Self
• 2003Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest — Self / Leigh Brackett