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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Credits
- 2025 · The American Revolution as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · The Program as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Good Men as Self
- 2023 · Kennedy as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · La Californie ! as Self - Actor / Activist
- 2022 · Jerry Brown: The Disrupter as Self
- 2021 · The Tent Mender as as Narrator
- 2020 · Almost Thirteen as Narrator
- 2018 · The Etruscan Smile as Professor
- 2016 · Americana as Ben
- 2015 · Girl on the Edge as Hank Taylor
- 2015 · The Price of Fame as Crooker
- 2011 · The Gundown as Thomas Morgan
- 2010 · DiDi Hollywood as Michael McLean
- 2009 · Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League as Himself - Narrator
- 2008 · A Single Woman as Maury Maverick
- 2007 · Fog City Mavericks as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · The Sunday Man as The Voice
- 2003 · Northfork as Eddie
- 2002 · Founding Brothers as
- 2001 · Midwives as Stephen Hastings
- 2001 · Jack the Dog as Alfred
- 2000 · More Dogs Than Bones as Detective Darren Cody
- 2000 · Red Letters as Dennis Burke
- 1999 · The History of Sex as Himself - Narrator
- 1999 · National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway as Himself - Narrator
- 1992 · The Pacific Century as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Crooked Hearts as Edward Warren
- 1991 · High Art as Peter Mandrake
- 1989 · Unconquered as Richmond Flowers Sr.
- 1987 · Echoes in the Darkness as William Bradfield Jr.
- 1987 · A Man in Love as Steve Elliott
- 1987 · Sworn to Silence as Sam Fischetti
- 1987 · Outrageous Fortune as Michael Sanders
- 1987 · Stacking as The Photographer
- Future · Hayden's Corner as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · The Last Stand as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · The Co-op Wars as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Nepal Beyond as Narrator
- 2021 · Downwinders and the Radioactive West as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve as Narrator
- 2020 · About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey as narrator
- 2019 · The Atomic Tree as Narrator
- 2018 · Summer of Love as Himself
- 2018 · Saving Atlantis as
- 2014 · Angel Azul as Narrator
- 2012 · Right to Play as Narrator
- 2011 · I am Fishead as narrator
- 2011 · Bag It as Self
- 2011 · Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Vampire Forensics as
- 2009 · 24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact as Narrator
- 2009 · I Know What I Saw as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · With One Voice as Narrator
- 2009 · Huxley on Huxley as Self
- 2008 · Illicit: The Dark Trade as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Soldiers Of Conscience as Self
- 2005 · The War Prayer as Narrator
- 2005 · The Tribe as Voice
- 2005 · Commune as self, Black Bear resident
- 2004 · Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer as
- 2003 · National Geographic: Surviving Everest as Narrator
- 2003 · Grizzly Diaries as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 ·