{"id":669472,"date":"2026-05-28T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:09:09","slug":"charles-cioffi-dead-shaft-get-christie-love-x-files-actor-was-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669472\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Cioffi Dead: \u2018Shaft,\u2019 \u2018Get Christie Love!,\u2019 \u2018X-Files\u2019 Actor Was 90"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCharles Cioffi, the veteran character actor who portrayed lots of cops and crooks in projects including Klute, Shaft, Get Christie Love! and The X-Files, died Friday at his home in Marina del Rey, his family announced<\/a>. He was 90.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe New York native also appeared seven times on Broadway \u2014 he played John Hancock in the musical 1776 that ran from 1969-72 \u2014 and was in such soap operas as Ryan\u2019s Hope, As the World Turns, Days of Our Lives (as the revenge-seeking bomber businessman Ernesto Toscano) and All My Children.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also portrayed Tom Cruise\u2019s widowed father in All the Right Moves (1983).<\/p>\n

\n\tCharles Michael Cioffi was born in New York on Oct. 31, 1935. He attended Michigan State University, made his professional acting debut at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and made it to Broadway for the first time in 1968 in King Lear for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1971 movies, he portrayed the killer stalking the call girl Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) in Alan J. Pakula\u2019s Klute and Lt. Vic Androzzi, the NYC cop who reluctantly deals with Richard Roundtree\u2019s private eye, in Shaft, directed by Gordon Parks.<\/p>\n

\n\tCioffi got tough in the gangster films Lucky Luciano (1973), The Don Is Dead (1973) and Crazy Joe (1974) and was Lt. Matt Reardon, the boss of Teresa Graves\u2019 character, on the 1974-75 ABC cop show Get Christie Love!<\/p>\n

\n\tLater, he was Chief George Morris alongside Telly Savalas in four Kojak telefilms that aired from 1989-90 and FBI section chief Scott Blevins on six episodes, including the pilot, of The X-Files from 1993-97.<\/p>\n

\n\tCioffi\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 included the films The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973), The Other Side of Midnight (1977), Time After Time (1979), Costa-Gavras\u2019 Missing (1982), Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), Newsies (1992) and Used People (1992) and TV stints on Bonanza, The F.B.I., The Bionic Woman, Hawaii Five-O, Flamingo Road, Lou Grant, Taxi, St. Elsewhere, Law & Order, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, The Larry Sanders Show, Frasier and The Practice.<\/p>\n

\n\tSurvivors include his wife of 66 years, Anne, and their two sons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Cioffi, the veteran character actor who portrayed lots of cops and crooks in projects including Klute, Shaft,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,10756],"class_list":["post-669472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}