Peter Coyote
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 10, 1941 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 299
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
2026Movie
Breaking News Reporter (voice)
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
2026Movie
Narrator
Lightworkers
2026Movie
Self-Interviewee
The American Revolution
2025TV
Narrator (voice)
Black Mountain Blues
2025Movie
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
2025Movie
Narrator
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
2025Movie
Narrator (voice)
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
2025Movie
Self
The Program
2024Movie
Narrator (voice)
Good Men
2024Movie
Self
Bad Faith
2024Movie
Narrator (voice)
Kennedy
2023TV
Narrator (voice)
The American Buffalo
2023TV
Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
2023TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Fields of Gold
2023Movie
Narrator
La Californie !
2023TV
Self - Actor / Activist
Spirit of Golf
2023Movie
Self
Against All Enemies
2023Movie
Narrator
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
2022Movie
Self
Moment of Contact
2022Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
2022Movie
Narrator
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Last Stand
2022Movie
Narrator (voice)
Benjamin Franklin
2022TV
Narrator (voice)
A Cloud Never Dies
2022Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Tent Mender
2021TV
as Narrator
The Co-op Wars
2021Movie
Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Stories
2021Movie
Narrator/SInger
Hemingway
2021TV
Narrator (voice)
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
2021Movie
Sam Donovan
Wandering...But Not Lost
2021Movie
Narrator
Nepal Beyond
2021Movie
Narrator
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
2021Movie
Narrator (voice)
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
2021Movie
Narrator
The Phenomenon
2020Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Comey Rule
2020TV
Robert Mueller
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
2020TV
Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
2020Movie
Narrator (voice)
Sunseed: The Journey
2020Movie
Narrator (voice)
Almost Thirteen
2020Movie
Narrator
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019Movie
Self
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
2019Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
2019Movie
narrator
Country Music
2019TV
Narrator
The Atomic Tree
2019Movie
Narrator
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
2018Movie
Narrator
As If They Were Angels
2018Movie
Narrator
The Mayo Clinic
2018Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Summer of Love
2018Movie
Himself
The Etruscan Smile
2018Movie
Professor
Saving Atlantis
2018Movie
Spielberg
2017Movie
Self
The Disappearance
2017TV
Henry Sullivan
The Vietnam War
2017TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017Movie
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
2017Movie
Himself - Narrator
1 Mile To You
2017Movie
Principal Umber
The Reality of Truth
2016Movie
Self
Americana
2016Movie
Ben
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
2016Movie
Himself
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015Movie
Self
A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education
2015Movie
Narrator
The Spoils Before Dying
2015TV
Dizzy the Cat
Eva & Leon
2015Movie
Le Père
No Deposit
2015Movie
Police Chief Williams
A Coup in Camelot
2015Movie
Narrator (voice)
Good Kill
2015Movie
Langley
Girl on the Edge
2015Movie
Hank Taylor
The Price of Fame
2015Movie
Crooker
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
2014Movie
Burt Lowell
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014TV
Narrator (voice)
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
2014Movie
Narrator
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014TV
Himself
Angel Azul
2014Movie
Narrator
Intelligence
2014TV
Leland Strand
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
2013Movie
Narrator
The Ghost Army
2013Movie
Narrator (Voice)
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013Movie
Self
Rise Above the Mark
2012Movie
Narrator
The Dust Bowl
2012TV
Peter Coyote
Dangerous Waters
2012TV
Self
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012Movie
Maxwell Perkins
Perception
2012TV
James Alan Pierce
Right to Play
2012Movie
Narrator
Valparaiso
2012Movie
Edward G. Drexler
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
2012Movie
Narrator
Prohibition
2011TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Gundown
2011Movie
Thomas Morgan
I am Fishead
2011Movie
narrator
Bag It
2011Movie
Self
Oceans in Glass
2011Movie
Narrator
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011TV
Self
Last Will
2011Movie
Judge Garner
Green Fire
2011Movie
Aldo Leopold (voice)
This Is Not a Movie
2011Movie
These Amazing Shadows
2011Movie
Self
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
2011Movie
Narrator (voice)
Here
2011Movie
Storyteller
Great Migrations
2010TV
DiDi Hollywood
2010Movie
Michael McLean
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
2010Movie
Narrator
Law & Order: LA
2010TV
Jerry Hardin
Blue Bloods
2010TV
Senator Ted McCreary
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
2010Movie
Narration
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
2010Movie
Narrator
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009Movie
Narrstor (voice)
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
2009Movie
Narrator
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
2009Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
I Know What I Saw
2009Movie
Narrator (voice)
Climbing Redwood Giants
2009Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009TV
Narrator
FlashForward
2009TV
Dave Segovia
With One Voice
2009Movie
Narrator
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
2009TV
Himself - Narrator
What The Tourist Should See
2009Movie
Narrator (voice)
Torturing Democracy
2009Movie
Narrator
Huxley on Huxley
2009Movie
Self
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
2009Movie
Narrator
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
2008Movie
Elliot Arthur
Adopt a Sailor
2008Movie
Richard
All Roads Lead Home
2008Movie
Hock
A Single Woman
2008Movie
Maury Maverick
$5 a Day
2008Movie
Burt Kruger
Finding Anastasia
2008Movie
Narrator
Illicit: The Dark Trade
2008Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Alaska Far Away
2008Movie
Narrator
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
2008Movie
President Sterling
The Brain Fitness Program
2008Movie
Texas Gold
2008Movie
Narrator
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
2007Movie
Narrator
Fog City Mavericks
2007Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Resurrecting the Champ
2007Movie
Ike Epstein
Hippies
2007Movie
Self
The Sunday Man
2007Movie
The Voice
Strange Culture
2007Movie
Self
Soldiers Of Conscience
2007Movie
Self
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006Movie
President Adair T. Manning
Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business
2006Movie
Self
Brothers and Sisters
2006TV
Mark August
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006Movie
Narrator (voice)
AKA Tommy Chong
2006Movie
Himself
The Gospel of Judas
2006Movie
Narrator
A Little Trip to Heaven
2005Movie
Frank
The Sacramento River of Life
2005Movie
Narrator
The War Prayer
2005Movie
Narrator
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
2005Movie
Uncle Charles
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005Movie
Uncle Charles
Commander in Chief
2005TV
Warren Keaton
The Tribe
2005Movie
Voice
Guns Germs & Steel
2005TV
Narrator (voice)
Deepwater
2005Movie
Herman Finch
The Inside
2005TV
Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Commune
2005Movie
self, Black Bear resident
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005TV
Mike LaSalle
The Great Role
2004Movie
Rudolph Grichenberg
Shadow of Fear
2004Movie
Congressman Henderson
The 4400
2004TV
Dennis Ryland
Oil on Ice
2004Movie
Narrator
Deadwood
2004TV
General George Crook
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
2004Movie
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003Movie
Narrator
The Hebrew Hammer
2003Movie
JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
Phenomenon II
2003Movie
John Ringold
NCIS
2003TV
Ned Quinn
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
2003Movie
Narrator (voice)
Northfork
2003Movie
Eddie
Out of the Blue
2003Movie
Narrator (voice)
Written In Blood
2003Movie
John Traveller
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
2003Movie
Narrator
Bon Voyage
2003Movie
Alex Winckler
Grizzly Diaries
2003Movie
Narrator (voice)
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
2002Movie
Narrator
A Time for Dancing
2002Movie
Wyn Michaels
Founding Brothers
2002TV
Femme Fatale
2002Movie
Watts
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
2002Movie
Narrator (voice)
Polanski y los ojos del mal
2002Movie
Himself
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2002Movie
Self
Purpose
2002Movie
Bernard Elias
A Walk to Remember
2002Movie
Reverend Sullivan
The Color of War
2001TV
Narrator
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001TV
Lionel Shill
Suddenly Naked
2001Movie
Lionel Heathcote
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
2001Movie
Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
Midwives
2001Movie
Stephen Hastings
In the Light of Reverence
2001Movie
Narrator (voice)
Jack the Dog
2001Movie
Alfred
The Division
2001TV
Ross
Founding Fathers
2000TV
John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
More Dogs Than Bones
2000Movie
Detective Darren Cody
Red Letters
2000Movie
Dennis Burke
The Wednesday Woman
2000Movie
Don Wigulow
The Basket
2000Movie
Martin Conlon
Erin Brockovich
2000Movie
Kurt Potter
Search for the Submarine I-52
2000Movie
Narrator
Execution of Justice
1999Movie
Harvey Milk
Missing in Tibet
1999Movie
Narrator
Random Hearts
1999Movie
Cullen Chandler
The History of Sex
1999TV
Himself - Narrator
Independent Lens
1999TV
Emperor of Hemp
1999Movie
Narrator
Murder on Shadow Mountain
1999Movie
Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
1999Movie
Himself - Narrator
Last Call
1999Movie
Xuave
Patch Adams
1998Movie
Bill Davis
Route 9
1998Movie
Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
1998Movie
Narrator
Indiscreet
1998Movie
Detective Roos
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
1998Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Seeds of Doubt
1998Movie
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
1998Movie
Narrator
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
1998Movie
Narrator, English version (voice)
Rome: Power & Glory
1998TV
Narrator
Sphere
1998Movie
Captain Harold C. Barnes
Two for Texas
1998Movie
Jim Bowie
San Francisco Diggers
1998Movie
Avalanche: The White Death
1998Movie
Narrator
The Secrets of 007
1997Movie
Narrator (voice)
Road Ends
1997Movie
Gene Gere
Top of the World
1997Movie
Doc 'The Butcher'
Murder in My Mind
1997Movie
Arthur Lefcourt
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
1997Movie
Narrator
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996Movie
Self
The West
1996TV
Self - Narrator
Terminal Justice
1996Movie
Deacon Vivyan
Dalva
1996Movie
Michael
Seduced by Madness
1996TV
Ruben Borchardt
Unforgettable
1996Movie
Don Bresler
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
1996TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Moonlight and Valentino
1995Movie
Paul
That Eye, the Sky
1995Movie
Henry Warburton
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995Movie
Narrator
Buffalo Girls
1995Movie
Buffalo Bill Cody
Cybill
1995TV
Roger
Breach of Conduct
1994Movie
Col. Andrew Case
The Peyote Road
1994Movie
Narrator
Roots of Roe
1993Movie
James Morris (voice)
Kika
1993Movie
Nicholas Pierce
Fallen Angels
1993TV
Herman Charn
Earth and the American Dream
1992Movie
Reader (voice)
The Pacific Century
1992TV
Narrator (voice)
Bitter Moon
1992Movie
Oscar
Keeper of the City
1991Movie
Frank Nordhall
Living a Lie
1991Movie
Matt
Crooked Hearts
1991Movie
Edward Warren
High Art
1991Movie
Peter Mandrake
A Seduction in Travis County
1991Movie
Frank Maguire
The Man Inside
1990Movie
Henry Tobel
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990Movie
Narrator (voice)
Poison in the Rockies
1990Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Simpsons
1989TV
Peter Coyote (voice)
Unconquered
1989Movie
Richmond Flowers Sr.
Heart of Midnight
1988Movie
Sharpe/Larry
American Experience
1988TV
Narrator (voice)
Baja Oklahoma
1988Movie
Slick Henderson
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988Movie
Narrator
Echoes in the Darkness
1987Movie
William Bradfield Jr.
Echoes in the Darkness
1987TV
William Bradfield Jr.
A Man in Love
1987Movie
Steve Elliott
Sworn to Silence
1987Movie
Sam Fischetti
Outrageous Fortune
1987Movie
Michael Sanders
Stacking
1987Movie
The Photographer
Child's Cry
1986Movie
Matt Townsend
The Blue Yonder
1985Movie
Max Knickerbocker
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
1985Movie
Narrator (voice)
Jagged Edge
1985Movie
Thomas Krasny
The Twilight Zone
1985TV
(segment "Shadow Play")
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
1985Movie
Narrator
The Legend of Billie Jean
1985Movie
Ringwald
National Geographic Explorer
1985TV
Self - Narrator, Himself - Narrator (voice)
Scorned and Swindled
1984Movie
Anthony Ristelli
Heartbreakers
1984Movie
Blue
Best Kept Secrets
1984Movie
Frank Mitchell
Slayground
1984Movie
Stone
The Hitchhiker
1983TV
Alex Nolan
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
1983Movie
Narrator (voice)
Cross Creek
1983Movie
Norton Baskin
Strangers Kiss
1983Movie
Stanley, the Director
The UFO Experience
1982Movie
Nature
1982TV
Narrator (voice)
Endangered Species
1982Movie
Steele
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982Movie
Porter Reese
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982Movie
Keys
American Playhouse
1982TV
Young David
Breach of Contract
1982Movie
Out
1982Movie
Rex
Isabel's Choice
1981Movie
Wynn Thomas
Southern Comfort
1981Movie
Poole
People vs. Jean Harris
1981Movie
George Bolen
Tell Me a Riddle
1980Movie
Young David
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980Movie
Courtney Taylor
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980TV
Courtney Taylor
Die Laughing
1980Movie
Davis
The Hippie Temptation
1967Movie
Digger
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
Movie
Narrator
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
Movie
Hayden's Corner
Movie
Narrator (voice)