FrameThrower · Actors · Charles Cyphers
Charles Cyphers
4 films · 246 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–1981
Born 28 July 1939 · Niagara Falls, New York, USA · died 4 August 2024
Charles Cyphers 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).
How their films are shot
Measured across 246 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Charles takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 78% of their frames are night, 73% low key — the look of the work Charles takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 246 frames from Charles Cyphers's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.