Peter Coyote
Acting
- Born:
- 1941-10-10
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Antonio's Road
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
Lightworkers
The American Revolution
Black Mountain Blues
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
The Program
Good Men
Bad Faith
Kennedy
The American Buffalo
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
Fields of Gold
La Californie !
Spirit of Golf
Against All Enemies
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Moment of Contact
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
The U.S. and the Holocaust
The Last Stand
Benjamin Franklin
A Cloud Never Dies
The Tent Mender
The Co-op Wars
San Francisco Stories
Hemingway
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
Wandering...But Not Lost
Nepal Beyond
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
The Phenomenon
The Comey Rule
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
Sunseed: The Journey
Almost Thirteen
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
Country Music
The Atomic Tree
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
As If They Were Angels
The Mayo Clinic
Summer of Love
The Etruscan Smile
Saving Atlantis
Spielberg
The Disappearance
The Vietnam War
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
1 Mile To You
The Reality of Truth
Americana
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education
The Spoils Before Dying
Eva & Leon
No Deposit
A Coup in Camelot
Good Kill
Girl on the Edge
The Price of Fame
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
The Real History of Science Fiction
Angel Azul
Intelligence
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
The Ghost Army
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rise Above the Mark
The Dust Bowl
Dangerous Waters
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Perception
Right to Play
Valparaiso
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
Prohibition
The Gundown
I am Fishead
Bag It
Oceans in Glass
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
Last Will
Green Fire
This Is Not a Movie
These Amazing Shadows
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
Here
Great Migrations
DiDi Hollywood
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
Law & Order: LA
Blue Bloods
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
Reconstructing T-Rex
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
I Know What I Saw
Climbing Redwood Giants
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
FlashForward
With One Voice
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
What The Tourist Should See
Torturing Democracy
Huxley on Huxley
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
Adopt a Sailor
All Roads Lead Home
A Single Woman
$5 a Day
Finding Anastasia
Illicit: The Dark Trade
Alaska Far Away
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
The Brain Fitness Program
Texas Gold
Speak Out
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Fog City Mavericks
Resurrecting the Champ
Hippies
The Sunday Man
Strange Culture
Soldiers Of Conscience
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business
Brothers and Sisters
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
AKA Tommy Chong
The Gospel of Judas
A Little Trip to Heaven
The Sacramento River of Life
The War Prayer
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
Commander in Chief
The Tribe
Guns Germs & Steel
Deepwater
The Inside
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Commune
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The Great Role
Shadow of Fear
The 4400
Oil on Ice
Deadwood
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
The Hebrew Hammer
Phenomenon II
NCIS
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
Northfork
Out of the Blue
Written In Blood
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
Bon Voyage
Grizzly Diaries
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
A Time for Dancing
Founding Brothers
Femme Fatale
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
Polanski y los ojos del mal
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
Purpose
A Walk to Remember
The Color of War
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Suddenly Naked
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Midwives
In the Light of Reverence
Jack the Dog
The Division
Founding Fathers
More Dogs Than Bones
Red Letters
The Wednesday Woman
The Basket
Erin Brockovich
Search for the Submarine I-52
Execution of Justice
Missing in Tibet
Random Hearts
The History of Sex
Independent Lens
Emperor of Hemp
Murder on Shadow Mountain
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
Last Call
Patch Adams
Route 9
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
Indiscreet
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
Seeds of Doubt
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
Rome: Power & Glory
Sphere
Two for Texas
San Francisco Diggers
Avalanche: The White Death
The Secrets of 007
Road Ends
Top of the World
Murder in My Mind
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
The West
Terminal Justice
Dalva
Seduced by Madness
Unforgettable
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
Moonlight and Valentino
That Eye, the Sky
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Buffalo Girls
Cybill
Breach of Conduct
The Peyote Road
Roots of Roe
Kika
Fallen Angels
Earth and the American Dream
The Pacific Century
Bitter Moon
Keeper of the City
Living a Lie
Crooked Hearts
High Art
A Seduction in Travis County
The Man Inside
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Poison in the Rockies
The Simpsons
Unconquered
Heart of Midnight
American Experience
Baja Oklahoma
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
Echoes in the Darkness
Echoes in the Darkness
A Man in Love
Sworn to Silence
Outrageous Fortune
Stacking
Child's Cry
The Blue Yonder
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Jagged Edge
The Twilight Zone
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
The Legend of Billie Jean
National Geographic Explorer
Scorned and Swindled
Heartbreakers
Best Kept Secrets
Slayground
The Hitchhiker
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
Cross Creek
Strangers Kiss
The UFO Experience
Nature
Endangered Species
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
American Playhouse
Breach of Contract
Out
Isabel's Choice
Southern Comfort
People vs. Jean Harris
Tell Me a Riddle
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Die Laughing
The Hippie Temptation
The Oscars
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
Hayden's Corner
Huichols and Pesticides