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.
Filmography
all 295
Movies 233
Narrator 77
self 64
TV Shows 62
Voice 7
Director 1
Bad Faith (2024)
Kennedy (2023)
The American Buffalo (2023)
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time (2023)
Fields of Gold (2023)
La Californie ! (2023)
Against All Enemies (2023)
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter (2022)
Moment of Contact (2022)
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story (2022)
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
We Are As Gods (2022)
The Last Stand (2022)
Benjamin Franklin (2022)
Benjamin Franklin (2022)
A Cloud Never Dies (2022)
The Tent Mender (2021)
Hemingway (2021)
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021)
Wandering...But Not Lost (2021)
Sri Yantra: The Oregon Desert Mystery (2021)
Nepal Beyond (2021)
Downwinders and the Radioactive West (2021)
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve (2021)
The Phenomenon (2020)
The Comey Rule (2020)
Helter Skelter: An American Myth (2020)
Sunseed: The Journey (2020)
Almost Thirteen (2020)
Country Music by Ken Burns (2019)
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre (2019)
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale (2019)
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey (2019)
Country Music (2019)
And Now, Love (2019)
The Etruscan Smile (2019)
The Atomic Tree (2019)
The Remarkable Life of John Weld (2018)
As If They Were Angels (2018)
The Mayo Clinic (2018)
Summer of Love (2018)
Saving Atlantis (2018)
Spielberg (2017)
The Disappearance (2017)
The Vietnam War (2017)
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple (2017)
1 Mile To You (2017)
Paris Can Wait (2016)
The Reality of Truth (2016)
Americana (2016)
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging. (2016)
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy (2015)
The Spoils Before Dying (2015)
Eva & Leon (2015)
No Deposit (2015)
A Coup in Camelot (2015)
Good Kill (2015)
Dirty Gold War (2015)
Girl on the Edge (2015)
The Price of Fame (2015)
I Know What I Saw (2015)
Bangkok, We Have A Problem! (2014)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods (2014)
The Real History of Science Fiction (2014)
Angel Azul (2014)
Intelligence (2014)
Journey of Hanuman (2013)
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form (2013)
The Ghost Army (2013)
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal (2013)
Kennesaw: One Last Mountain (2013)
Rise Above the Mark (2012)
The Dust Bowl (2012)
Dangerous Waters (2012)
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Perception (2012)
Right to Play (2012)
For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival (2012)
Valparaiso (2012)
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72 (2012)
Edit Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco (2011)
Prohibition (2011)
The Gundown (2011)
I am Fishead (2011)
Bag It (2011)
Oceans in Glass (2011)
Last Will (2011)
Green Fire (2011)
This Is Not a Movie (2011)
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
Here (2011)
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology (2011)
Great Migrations (2010)
DiDi Hollywood (2010)
Law & Order: LA (2010)
Blue Bloods (2010)
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer (2010)
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction (2010)
Vampire Forensics (2010)
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil (2009)
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska (2009)
Climbing Redwood Giants (2009)
The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
FlashForward (2009)
With One Voice (2009)
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League (2009)
What The Tourist Should See (2009)
Torturing Democracy (2009)
Huxley on Huxley (2009)
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story (2008)
Adopt a Sailor (2008)
A Single Woman (2008)
$5 a Day (2008)
Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008)
The Brain Fitness Program (2008)
Illicit: The Dark Trade (2008)
Alaska Far Away (2008)
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief (2008)
The Brain Fitness Program (2008)
Texas Gold (2008)
The Virus Hunters (2008)
All Roads Lead Home (2008)
One Man, One Cow, One Planet (2007)
Fog City Mavericks (2007)
Resurrecting the Champ (2007)
Hippies (2007)
Strange Culture (2007)
Soldiers Of Conscience (2007)
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006)
Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home (2006)
AKA Tommy Chong (2006)
The Gospel of Judas (2006)
A Little Trip to Heaven (2005)
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)
Commander in Chief (2005)
The Tribe (2005)
Guns Germs & Steel (2005)
Deepwater (2005)
The Inside (2005)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Commune (2005)
Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005)
Koursk : Un sous-marin en eaux troubles (2004)
The Great Role (2004)
Shadow of Fear (2004)
The 4400 (2004)
Oil on Ice (2004)
Deadwood (2004)
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer (2004)
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction Of Northfork (2003)
Phenomenon II (2003)
Dreaming of Tibet (2003)
NCIS (2003)
Northfork (2003)
Out of the Blue (2003)
Written In Blood (2003)
Bon Voyage (2003)
The Hebrew Hammer (2003)
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002)
A Time for Dancing (2002)
Founding Brothers (2002)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets (2002)
Polanski y los ojos del mal (2002)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special (2002)
Purpose (2002)
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
Suddenly Naked (2001)
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore (2001)
Midwives (2001)
The Shape of Life (2001)
Jack the Dog (2001)
The Division (2001)
Founding Fathers (2000)
More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
Frontier: The Decisive Battles (2000)
Red Letters (2000)
The Wednesday Woman (2000)
The Basket (2000)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Search for the Submarine I-52 (2000)
Execution of Justice (1999)
Random Hearts (1999)
The History of Sex (1999)
Independent Lens (1999)
Emperor of Hemp (1999)
Murder on Shadow Mountain (1999)
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway (1999)
Last Call (1999)
Still Missing (1999)
Patch Adams (1998)
Route 9 (1998)
Top of the World (1998)
Indiscreet (1998)
Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest (1998)
National Geographic's Storm of the Century (1998)
Seeds Of Doubt (1998)
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity (1998)
Rome: Power & Glory (1998)
Sphere (1998)
Two for Texas (1998)
San Francisco Diggers (1998)
Avalanche: The White Death (1998)
The Secrets of 007 (1997)
Road Ends (1997)
The Living Edens (1997)
Murder in My Mind (1997)
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens (1997)
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' (1996)
The West (1996)
Terminal Justice (1996)
Dalva (1996)
Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story (1996)
Seduced by Madness (1996)
Unforgettable (1996)
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
That Eye, the Sky (1995)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
Buffalo Girls (1995)
The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995)
American Cinema (1995)
Breach of Conduct (1994)
Kika (1993)
Fallen Angels (1993)
Earth and the American Dream (1992)
Bitter Moon (1992)
Keeper of the City (1991)
Living a Lie (1991)
Crooked Hearts (1991)
High Art (1991)
A Seduction in Travis County (1991)
The Man Inside (1990)
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990)
The Simpsons (1989)
Act of Will (1989)
Unconquered (1989)
Act of Will (1989)
Heart of Midnight (1988)
American Experience (1988)
Baja Oklahoma (1988)
African Odyssey (1988)
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America (1988)
Echoes in the Darkness (1987)
Echoes in the Darkness (1987)
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today (1987)
A Man in Love (1987)
Sworn to Silence (1987)
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Stacking (1987)
Child's Cry (1986)
The Blue Yonder (1985)
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe (1985)
Jagged Edge (1985)
Troupers (1985)
The Twilight Zone (1985)
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats (1985)
The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)
Explorer (1985)
Scorned and Swindled (1984)
Heartbreakers (1984)
Best Kept Secrets (1984)
Slayground (1983)
The Hitchhiker (1983)
Cross Creek (1983)
Strangers Kiss (1983)
The UFO Experience (1982)
Nature (1982)
Endangered Species (1982)
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Breach of Contract (1982)
Out (1982)
Isabel's Choice (1981)
Southern Comfort (1981)
People vs. Jean Harris (1981)
Tell Me a Riddle (1980)
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980)
Die Laughing (1980)
The Hippie Temptation (1967)
The Oscars (1953)
Bearer of the Morning
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
Peru's Mass Grave Mystery
Free Wheels East
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area
Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters
The War Prayer
Buffalo Girls
San Francisco Sounds
The Sacramento River of Life
The color of war
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1941-10-10 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceManhattan, United States of America
ReligionBuddhism
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsRachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon
AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator, News & Documentary Emmy Award, News and Documentary Emmy Award, Primetime Emmy Award
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