Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 10, 1941
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
300 titles
Peter Coyote
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
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
Narrator
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)
Sunseed: The Journey
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