As Sheriff Brackett, Mr. Cyphers was a part of the charge to find the masked murderer Michael Myers in Halloween, the slasher film that a critic for The New York Times, Jason Zinoman, decades later described as a relentlessly terrifying masterpiece.
In a pivotal scene in the movie, directed by John Carpenter, Mr. Cyphers stands across from a doctor who reveals the psychopathy of Myers, a killer who cannot be reasoned with and has no sense of right and wrong.
Mr. Cyphers had a commanding presence on the screen, with a no-nonsense demeanor that embodied the law enforcers he played throughout the years. He reprised his role for Halloween II (1981) and then decades later for the 2021 film Halloween Kills.
It was wonderful to be called back again in a film, he said. It's unheard-of after 40 years. Charles George Cyphers was born on July 28, 1939, in Niagara Falls, N.Y.
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