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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Halloween Kills
2021
as Leigh Brackett
Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last enc...

Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
as Steve
All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attacks a massive rock concert in the National Park. [...

The Night She Came Home!!
2013
as Self
A short documentary, done by John Marsh and Kelly Curtis, explores Curtis’ relationship to the Halloween franchise. Called “The Night She Came Home”, ...

Halloween: The Inside Story
2010
as Self
This feature-length documentary takes a look at one of the most successful film franchises of all time as it goes behind the scenes of John Carpenter’...

Methodic
2007
as Chief Sperranza
Possessed by an ominous presence known as "The Dollman", a young boy murders his parents in cold blood. Sentenced to a life under a microscope at the ...

Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
2003
as Self / Leigh Brackett
Using original interviews with director John Carpenter, stars Jamie Lee Curtis and P.J. Soles, and crew members, 'Halloween': A Cut Above the Rest unv...

Critical Mass
2001
as Henderson
Jeffers works security at a nuclear power plant. The plant is being decommissioned, and a politician is touring the plant and videotaping his comments...

Mach 2
2001
as Harry Olson
A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hos...

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Interrogator
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before the...

Major League
1989
as Charlie Donovan
When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to move the team to a warmer climate—but only a losing s...

Gleaming the Cube
1989
as Harvey McGill
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him die...

Big Bad Mama II
1987
as Stark
Wilma McClatchie and her daughters return to a life of crime and vow vengeance against the evil land baron who foreclosed on their home.

Hunter's Blood
1986
as Woody
Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally having good time. However, the local inbred backwoo...

Little House: Look Back to Yesterday
1983
as Zack Taylor
Albert Quinn Ingalls wants to be a doctor. But soon he discovers that he is fatally ill. He decides to spend the rest of his life in Walnut Grove. Mea...
Memorial Day
1983
as Jack Ruskin
An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and ...

Honkytonk Man
1982
as Stubbs
During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand O...

The Executioner's Song
1982
as Noall Wootton
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to...

Death Wish II
1982
as Donald Kay
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.

Halloween II
1981
as Sheriff Leigh Brackett
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie t...

Escape from New York
1981
as Secretary of State
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US pre...

Borderline
1980
as Ski
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of ...

Friendly Fire
1980
as Tom Loomis
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam...

The Fog
1980
as Dan O'Bannon
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. ...

The Onion Field
1979
as Chaplain
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice...

A Force of One
1979
as Dr. Eppis
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the mar...

Elvis
1979
as Sam Phillips
This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.

Someone's Watching Me!
1978
as Gary Hunt
A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.

Halloween
1978
as Brackett
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddon...

Gray Lady Down
1978
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a pote...

Coming Home
1978
as Pee Wee
In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1977
as Michael Brandon
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.

MacArthur
1977
as General Harding
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by ...

Our Town
1977
as Sam Craig
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.

Assault on Precinct 13
1976
as Starker
The skeleton staff of a deserted neighborhood's police station that is closing down the next day are under attack all night by the overwhelming number...

Vigilante Force
1976
as Perry Beal
In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their communit...

The Missiles of October
1974
as Press Photographer
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974
as Arthur 'Doc' Barker
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.

Truck Turner
1974
as Drunk
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.

The Slams
1973
as Nicol (uncredited)
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.

Stingy Jack
N/A
as Sheriff Taggart - age 59
After a near-fatal car accident, Kaitlyn awakens and is horrified to find her son, Milo, missing in a small town plagued with residents reluctant to h...