Peter Coyote
Actor
Born October 10, 1941 in New York City, New York, USA
Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts. Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s. Coyote was also an actor, writer and director with the San Francisco Mime Troupe; his prominence in the San Francisco counter-culture scene led to his being interviewed for the noted book, Voices from the Love Generation. He acted in and directed the first cross-country tour of the Minstrel Show, and his play Olive Pits, co-authored with Mime Troupe member Peter Berg, won the Troupe an Obie Award from the Village Voice. Coyote became a member, and later chairman, of the California Arts Council from 1975 to 1983. In the late 1970s, he shifted from acting on stage to acting in films. In the 1990s and 2000s, he acted in several television shows. He speaks fluent Spanish and French.
Filmography
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
Narrator
Hayden's Corner
Narrator (voice)
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
Narrator
Lightworkers
Self-Interviewee
The American Revolution
Narrator (voice)
Black Mountain Blues
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
Narrator
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
Narrator (voice)
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
Self
The Program
Narrator (voice)
Good Men
Self
Bad Faith
Narrator (voice)
Kennedy
Narrator (voice)
The American Buffalo
Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
Self - Narrator (voice)
Fields of Gold
Narrator
La Californie !
Self - Actor / Activist
Spirit of Golf
Self
Against All Enemies
Narrator
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Self
Moment of Contact
Narrator (voice)
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
Narrator
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Last Stand
Narrator (voice)
Benjamin Franklin
Narrator (voice)
A Cloud Never Dies
Narrator (voice)
The Tent Mender
as Narrator
The Co-op Wars
Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Stories
Narrator/SInger
Hemingway
Narrator (voice)
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
Sam Donovan
Wandering...But Not Lost
Narrator
Nepal Beyond
Narrator
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
Narrator (voice)
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
Narrator
The Phenomenon
Narrator (voice)
The Comey Rule
Robert Mueller
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
Narrator (voice)
Almost Thirteen
Narrator
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
Self
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
Self - Narrator (voice)
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
narrator
Country Music
Narrator
The Atomic Tree
Narrator
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
Narrator
As If They Were Angels
Narrator
The Mayo Clinic
Self - Narrator (voice)
Summer of Love
Himself
The Etruscan Smile
Professor
Saving Atlantis
Spielberg
Self
The Disappearance
Henry Sullivan
The Vietnam War
Self - Narrator (voice)
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
Himself - Narrator
1 Mile To You
Principal Umber
Paris Can Wait
The Reality of Truth
Self
Americana
Ben
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
Himself
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Self
The Spoils Before Dying
Dizzy the Cat
Eva & Leon
Le Père
No Deposit
Police Chief Williams
A Coup in Camelot
Narrator (voice)
Good Kill
Langley
Girl on the Edge
Hank Taylor
The Price of Fame
Crooker
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
Burt Lowell
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Narrator (voice)
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
Narrator
The Real History of Science Fiction
Himself
Angel Azul
Narrator
Intelligence
Leland Strand
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
Narrator
The Ghost Army
Narrator (Voice)
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
The Dust Bowl
Peter Coyote
Dangerous Waters
Self
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Maxwell Perkins
Perception
James Alan Pierce
Valparaiso
Edward G. Drexler
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
Narrator
Prohibition
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Gundown
Thomas Morgan
I am Fishead
narrator
Bag It
Self
Oceans in Glass
Narrator
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
Self
Last Will
Judge Garner
Green Fire
Aldo Leopold (voice)
This Is Not a Movie
These Amazing Shadows
Self
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
Narrator (voice)
Here
Storyteller
Great Migrations
DiDi Hollywood
Michael McLean
Law & Order: LA
Jerry Hardin
Blue Bloods
Senator Ted McCreary
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
Narration
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Narrstor (voice)
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
Narrator
I Know What I Saw
Narrator (voice)
Climbing Redwood Giants
Self - Narrator (voice)
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Narrator
FlashForward
Dave Segovia
With One Voice
Narrator
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
Himself - Narrator
What The Tourist Should See
Narrator (voice)
Torturing Democracy
Narrator
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
Narrator
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
Elliot Arthur
Adopt a Sailor
Richard
All Roads Lead Home
Hock
A Single Woman
Maury Maverick
$5 a Day
Burt Kruger
Finding Anastasia
Narrator
Illicit: The Dark Trade
Self - Narrator (voice)
Alaska Far Away
Narrator
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
President Sterling
The Brain Fitness Program
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Narrator
Fog City Mavericks
Self - Narrator (voice)
Resurrecting the Champ
Ike Epstein
Hippies
Self
The Sunday Man
The Voice
Strange Culture
Self
Soldiers Of Conscience
Self
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
President Adair T. Manning
Brothers and Sisters
Mark August
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Narrator (voice)
AKA Tommy Chong
Himself
The Gospel of Judas
A Little Trip to Heaven
Frank
The Sacramento River of Life
Narrator
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
Uncle Charles
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
Uncle Charles
Commander in Chief
Warren Keaton
The Tribe
Voice
Guns Germs & Steel
Narrator (voice)
Deepwater
Herman Finch
The Inside
Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Self - Narrator (voice)
Commune
self, Black Bear resident
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Mike LaSalle
The Great Role
Rudolph Grichenberg
Shadow of Fear
Congressman Henderson
The 4400
Dennis Ryland
Oil on Ice
Narrator
Deadwood
General Crook
The Hebrew Hammer
JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
Phenomenon II
John Ringold
NCIS
Ned Quinn
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
Narrator (voice)
Northfork
Eddie
Out of the Blue
Narrator (voice)
Written In Blood
John Traveller
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
Narrator
Bon Voyage
Alex Winckler
Grizzly Diaries
Narrator (voice)
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
Narrator
A Time for Dancing
Wyn Michaels
Founding Brothers
Femme Fatale
Watts
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
Narrator (voice)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
Self
Purpose
Bernard Elias
A Walk to Remember
Reverend Sullivan
The Color of War
Narrator
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Lionel Shill
Suddenly Naked
Lionel Heathcote
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
Midwives
Stephen Hastings
In the Light of Reverence
Narrator (voice)
Jack the Dog
Alfred
The Division
Ross
Founding Fathers
John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
More Dogs Than Bones
Detective Darren Cody
Red Letters
Dennis Burke
The Wednesday Woman
Don Wigulow
The Basket
Martin Conlon
Erin Brockovich
Kurt Potter
Search for the Submarine I-52
Narrator
Execution of Justice
Harvey Milk
Random Hearts
Cullen Chandler
The History of Sex
Himself - Narrator
Independent Lens
Emperor of Hemp
Narrator
Murder on Shadow Mountain
Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
Himself - Narrator
Last Call
Xuave
Patch Adams
Bill Davis
Route 9
Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
Indiscreet
Detective Roos
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
Self - Narrator (voice)
Seeds of Doubt
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
Narrator
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
Narrator, English version (voice)
Rome: Power & Glory
Narrator
Sphere
Captain Harold C. Barnes
Two for Texas
Jim Bowie
Avalanche: The White Death
Narrator
The Secrets of 007
Narrator (voice)
Road Ends
Gene Gere
Top of the World
Doc 'The Butcher'
Murder in My Mind
Arthur Lefcourt
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
Narrator
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
Self
The West
Self - Narrator
Terminal Justice
Deacon Vivyan
Dalva
Michael
Seduced by Madness
Ruben Borchardt
Unforgettable
Don Bresler
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
Self - Narrator (voice)
Moonlight and Valentino
Paul
That Eye, the Sky
Henry Warburton
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Narrator
Buffalo Girls
Buffalo Bill Cody
Cybill
Roger
Breach of Conduct
Col. Andrew Case
The Peyote Road
Narrator
Kika
Nicholas Pierce
Fallen Angels
Herman Charn
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Bitter Moon
Oscar
Keeper of the City
Frank Nordhall
Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
Living a Lie
Matt
Crooked Hearts
Edward Warren
High Art
Peter Mandrake
A Seduction in Travis County
Frank Maguire
The Man Inside
Henry Tobel
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Narrator (voice)
Poison in the Rockies
Narrator (voice)
The Simpsons
Peter Coyote (voice)
Unconquered
Richmond Flowers Sr.
Heart of Midnight
Sharpe/Larry
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Baja Oklahoma
Slick Henderson
Echoes in the Darkness
William Bradfield Jr.
Echoes in the Darkness
William Bradfield Jr.
A Man in Love
Steve Elliott
Sworn to Silence
Sam Fischetti
Outrageous Fortune
Michael Sanders
Stacking
The Photographer
Child's Cry
Matt Townsend
The Blue Yonder
Max Knickerbocker
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Narrator (voice)
Jagged Edge
Thomas Krasny
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Shadow Play")
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
Narrator
The Legend of Billie Jean
Ringwald
Explorer
Scorned and Swindled
Anthony Ristelli
Heartbreakers
Blue
Best Kept Secrets
Frank Mitchell
Slayground
Stone
The Hitchhiker
Alex Nolan
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
Narrator (voice)
Cross Creek
Norton Baskin
Strangers Kiss
Stanley, the Director
Nature
Narrator (voice)
Endangered Species
Steele
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Porter Reese
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Keys
American Playhouse
Young David
Breach of Contract
Out
Rex
Isabel's Choice
Wynn Thomas
Southern Comfort
Poole
People vs. Jean Harris
George Bolen
Tell Me a Riddle
Young David
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Courtney Taylor
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Courtney Taylor
Die Laughing
Davis
The Hippie Temptation
Digger
The Oscars
Self