Charles Cioffi, 1935 – 2026

Busy stage, screen and TV character actor Charles Cioffi, 90, died on May 22. Cioffi appeared on Broadway in King Lear, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1776, Antigone, Hamlet, and several other plays; his films included Klute (stalking Jane Fonda), Shaft, The Thief Who Came to Dinner, All the Right Moves (as Tom Cruise’s father), The Other Side of Midnight, Time After Time, Missing, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Newsies, and Used People. But he was busiest on TV; Cioffi played Lt. Reardon on Get Christie Love!, Scott Blevins on The X-Files, Kirk Laverty on Another World, Ernesto Toscano on Another World, Judge Kimball on The Practice, and Lionel Glynn on All My Children; he also had one-offs on countless other TV series from the 1970s through the early 2000s. In later years, Cioffi taught history of live television at the University of Minnesota.