Peter Coyote
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.
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- Born:
- Oct 10, 1941 In Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 169
- First Appeared:
- In the movie San Francisco Stories
- Latest Project:
- Movie Bad Faith 2024-01-10
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | San Francisco Stories | Narrator/SInger | 2025 |
| Movie | The Sacramento River of Life | Narrator | 2025 |
| Movie | Bad Faith | Narrator (voice) | 2024-01-10 |
| Movie | Against All Enemies | Narrator | 2023-06-08 |
| Series | La Californie ! | Self - Actor / Activist | 2023-08-01 |
| Series | The American Buffalo | Narrator (voice) | 2023-10-16 |
| Movie | Fields of Gold | Narrator | 2023-08-18 |
| Movie | Moment of Contact | Narrator (voice) | 2022-10-18 |
| Series | The U.S. and the Holocaust | Self - Narrator | 2022-09-18 |
| Movie | The Girl Who Believes in Miracles | Sam Donovan | 2021-04-02 |
| Series | The Comey Rule | Robert Mueller | 2020-09-27 |
| Movie | The Phenomenon | Narrator (voice) | 2020-10-06 |
| Movie | Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre | Self | 2019-11-04 |
| Series | Country Music | Narrator | 2019-09-15 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Professor | 2018-04-12 |
| Movie | Summer of Love | Himself | 2018-06-12 |
| Movie | 1 Mile To You | Principal Umber | 2017-04-07 |
| Series | The Vietnam War | Narrator (voice) | 2017-09-17 |
| Movie | Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
| Series | The Disappearance | Henry Sullivan | 2017-10-01 |
| Movie | The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple | Himself - Narrator | 2017-06-03 |
| Movie | Americana | Ben | 2016-06-09 |
| Movie | The Reality of Truth | Self | 2016-07-19 |
| Series | The Spoils Before Dying | Dizzy the Cat | 2015-07-08 |
| Movie | Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy | Self | 2015-10-10 |
| Movie | Girl on the Edge | Hank Taylor | 2015-02-23 |
| Movie | The Price of Fame | Crooker | 2015-01-07 |
| Movie | No Deposit | Police Chief Williams | 2015-04-24 |
| Movie | Good Kill | Langley | 2015-04-09 |
| Movie | Eva & Leon | Le Père | 2015-06-17 |
| Series | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | Narrator (voice) | 2014-09-14 |
| Movie | Bangkok, We Have A Problem! | Burt Lowell | 2014-10-22 |
| Movie | Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal | Self | 2013-02-01 |
| Movie | Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72 | Narrator | 2012-01-02 |
| Movie | Rise Above the Mark | Narrator | 2012-12-12 |
| Series | The Dust Bowl | Peter Coyote | 2012-11-18 |
| Movie | Valparaiso | Edward G. Drexler | 2012-02-03 |
| Movie | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Maxwell Perkins | 2012-08-27 |
| Movie | These Amazing Shadows | Self | 2011-01-22 |
| Movie | This Is Not a Movie | 2011-01-28 | |
| Movie | Here | Storyteller | 2011-01-21 |
| Movie | Last Will | Judge Garner | 2011-03-22 |
| Movie | I am Fishead | narrator | 2011-09-11 |
| Series | Prohibition | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2011-10-02 |
| Movie | The Gundown | Thomas Morgan | 2011-09-12 |
| Movie | Bag It | Self | 2011-09-01 |
| Movie | Vampire Forensics | 2010-01-12 | |
| Movie | DiDi Hollywood | Michael McLean | 2010-10-15 |
| Series | Great Migrations | 2010-11-07 | |
| Movie | What If Cannabis Cured Cancer | Narration | 2010-07-05 |
| Movie | Huxley on Huxley | Self | 2009-03-17 |
| Movie | What The Tourist Should See | Narrator (voice) | 2009-08-01 |
| Series | Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League | Himself - Narrator | 2009-09-16 |
| Series | The National Parks: America's Best Idea | Narrator | 2009-09-27 |
| Movie | All Roads Lead Home | Hock | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief | President Sterling | 2008-03-04 |
| Movie | $5 a Day | Burt Kruger | 2008-09-06 |
| Movie | Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story | Elliot Arthur | 2008-11-06 |
| Movie | Adopt a Sailor | Richard | 2008-10-24 |
| Movie | A Single Woman | Maury Maverick | 2008-09-21 |
| Movie | Strange Culture | Self | 2007-02-09 |
| Movie | The Sunday Man | The Voice | 2007-03-28 |
| Movie | Resurrecting the Champ | Ike Epstein | 2007-06-14 |
| Movie | Hippies | Self | 2007-06-12 |
| Movie | Fog City Mavericks | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-24 |
| Movie | The Gospel of Judas | Narrator | 2006-04-05 |
| Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | President Adair T. Manning | 2006-10-17 |
| Movie | Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home | Narrator (voice) | 2006-07-12 |
| Movie | AKA Tommy Chong | Himself | 2006-06-14 |
| Series | The Inside | Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster | 2005-06-08 |
| Movie | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Narrator | 2005-04-22 |
| Movie | Deepwater | Herman Finch | 2005-06-09 |
| Movie | Berkeley | Narrator (voice) | 2005-10-08 |
| Movie | The War Prayer | Narrator | 2005-11-07 |
| Movie | A Little Trip to Heaven | Frank | 2005-12-26 |
| Movie | Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave | Uncle Charles | 2005-10-15 |
| Movie | Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis | Uncle Charles | 2005-10-15 |
| Movie | Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer | 2004-02-27 | |
| Movie | The Great Role | Rudolph Grichenberg | 2004-10-13 |
| Movie | Shadow of Fear | Congressman Henderson | 2004-09-14 |
| Movie | Out of the Blue | Narrator (voice) | 2003-06-24 |
| Movie | Bon Voyage | Alex Winckler | 2003-04-16 |
| Movie | Written In Blood | John Traveller | 2003-05-09 |
| Movie | The Hebrew Hammer | JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal | 2003-12-05 |
| Movie | Northfork | Eddie | 2003-07-11 |
| Movie | Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork | Narrator | 2003-12-30 |
| Movie | Phenomenon II | John Ringold | 2003-11-01 |
| Movie | Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina | Narrator (voice) | 2003-09-12 |
| Movie | A Walk to Remember | Reverend Sullivan | 2002-01-25 |
| Movie | Purpose | Bernard Elias | 2002-02-21 |
| Movie | Femme Fatale | Watts | 2002-04-30 |
| Movie | A Time for Dancing | Wyn Michaels | 2002-09-06 |
| Movie | Polanski y los ojos del mal | Himself | 2002-04-16 |
| Movie | Midwives | Stephen Hastings | 2001-04-02 |
| Movie | Suddenly Naked | Lionel Heathcote | 2001-09-08 |
| Movie | Erin Brockovich | Kurt Potter | 2000-03-17 |
| Movie | Red Letters | Dennis Burke | 2000-06-09 |
| Movie | The Wednesday Woman | Don Wigulow | 2000-05-24 |
| Movie | More Dogs Than Bones | Detective Darren Cody | 2000-07-14 |
| Movie | The Basket | Martin Conlon | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | Last Call | Xuave | 1999-01-03 |
| Movie | National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway | Himself - Narrator | 1999-04-14 |
| Movie | Execution of Justice | Harvey Milk | 1999-11-28 |
| Movie | Random Hearts | Cullen Chandler | 1999-10-08 |
| Movie | Murder on Shadow Mountain | Dennis 'Denny' Traynor | 1999-05-25 |
| Movie | Two for Texas | Jim Bowie | 1998-01-18 |
| Movie | Route 9 | Sheriff Dwayne Hogan | 1998-11-20 |
| Movie | Sphere | Captain Harold C. Barnes | 1998-02-13 |
| Movie | Patch Adams | Bill Davis | 1998-12-25 |
| Movie | Indiscreet | Detective Roos | 1998-08-28 |
| Movie | Murder in My Mind | Arthur Lefcourt | 1997-02-19 |
| Movie | Top of the World | Doc 'The Butcher' | 1997-05-01 |
| Movie | Road Ends | Gene Gere | 1997-10-05 |
| Movie | The Secrets of 007 | Narrator (voice) | 1997-12-04 |
| Movie | Unforgettable | Don Bresler | 1996-02-23 |
| Movie | Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story | Ruben Borchardt | 1996-02-25 |
| Series | The West | Self - Narrator | 1996-09-15 |
| Movie | Dalva | Michael | 1996-03-03 |
| Movie | The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' | Self | 1996-10-01 |
| Movie | Terminal Justice | Deacon Vivyan | 1996-04-01 |
| Movie | The History of Rock 'n' Roll | Self | 1995-03-06 |
| Movie | Buffalo Girls | Buffalo Bill Cody | 1995-04-30 |
| Movie | The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Narrator | 1995-06-05 |
| Movie | Moonlight and Valentino | Paul | 1995-09-29 |
| Movie | That Eye, the Sky | Henry Warburton | 1995-09-28 |
| Movie | Breach of Conduct | Col. Andrew Case | 1994-12-01 |
| Movie | Kika | Nicholas Pierce | 1993-10-29 |
| Movie | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
| Movie | Bitter Moon | Oscar | 1992-09-02 |
| Movie | Keeper of the City | Frank Nordhall | 1991-12-20 |
| Movie | Living a Lie | Matt | 1991-09-16 |
| Movie | High Art | Peter Mandrake | 1991-06-01 |
| Movie | Crooked Hearts | Edward Warren | 1991-09-06 |
| Movie | The Man Inside | Henry Tobel | 1990-10-26 |
| Movie | Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey | Narrator (voice) | 1990-01-19 |
| Movie | Poison in the Rockies | Narrator (voice) | 1990-01-09 |
| Movie | Unconquered | Richmond Flowers Sr. | 1989-01-15 |
| Movie | Baja Oklahoma | Slick Henderson | 1988-02-20 |
| Movie | Heart of Midnight | Sharpe/Larry | 1988-11-10 |
| Movie | Stacking | The Photographer | 1987-01-22 |
| Movie | Outrageous Fortune | Michael Sanders | 1987-01-30 |
| Series | Echoes in the Darkness | William Bradfield Jr. | 1987-11-01 |
| Movie | Echoes in the Darkness | William Bradfield Jr. | 1987-11-01 |
| Movie | A Man in Love | Steve Elliott | 1987-05-07 |
| Movie | Sworn to Silence | Sam Fischetti | 1987-04-06 |
| Movie | Child's Cry | Matt Townsend | 1986-02-09 |
| Movie | Jagged Edge | Thomas Krasny | 1985-10-04 |
| Movie | The Blue Yonder | Max Knickerbocker | 1985-11-10 |
| Movie | The Legend of Billie Jean | Lt. Larry Ringwald | 1985-07-19 |
| Movie | Heartbreakers | Blue | 1984-09-28 |
| Movie | Scorned and Swindled | Anthony Ristelli | 1984-10-09 |
| Movie | Best Kept Secrets | Frank Mitchell | 1984-03-26 |
| Movie | Slayground | Stone | 1983-12-01 |
| Movie | Strangers Kiss | Stanley, the Director | 1983-09-17 |
| Movie | The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area? | Narrator (voice) | 1983-11-15 |
| Movie | Cross Creek | Norton Baskin | 1983-09-21 |
| Movie | Out | Rex | 1982-01-01 |
| Movie | Endangered Species | Steele | 1982-09-10 |
| Movie | The UFO Experience | 1982-11-14 | |
| Movie | Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | Porter Reese | 1982-08-27 |
| Movie | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Keys | 1982-06-11 |
| Movie | Isabel's Choice | Wynn Thomas | 1981-12-16 |
| Movie | People vs. Jean Harris | George Bolen | 1981-05-07 |
| Movie | Southern Comfort | Poole | 1981-09-24 |
| Movie | Tell Me a Riddle | Young David | 1980-12-15 |
| Movie | Die Laughing | Davis | 1980-04-01 |
| Movie | Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story | Courtney Taylor | 1980-11-05 |
| Series | Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story | Courtney Taylor | 1980-11-05 |
| Movie | The Hippie Temptation | Digger | 1967-08-21 |