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.
Movies (217)
Black Mountain Blues
2025
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
2025
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
2025
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
2025
The Program
2024
Good Men
2024
Bad Faith
2024
Fields of Gold
2023
Spirit of Golf
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 Last Stand
2022
A Cloud Never Dies
2022
The Co-op Wars
2021
San Francisco Stories
2021
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
2021
Wandering...But Not Lost
2021
Nepal Beyond
2021
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
2021
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
2021
The Phenomenon
2020
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
2020
Almost Thirteen
2020
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
2019
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
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
The Etruscan Smile
2018
Saving Atlantis
2018
Spielberg
2017
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
2017
1 Mile To You
2017
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
Eva & Leon
2015
No Deposit
2015
A Coup in Camelot
2015
Good Kill
2015
Girl on the Edge
2015
The Price of Fame
2015
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
2014
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
2014
Angel Azul
2014
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
2013
The Ghost Army
2013
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
Valparaiso
2012
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
2012
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
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
2011
Here
2011
DiDi Hollywood
2010
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
2010
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
2009
I Know What I Saw
2009
Climbing Redwood Giants
2009
With One Voice
2009
What The Tourist Should See
2009
Torturing Democracy
2009
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
2009
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
2008
Adopt a Sailor
2008
All Roads Lead Home
2008
A Single Woman
2008
$5 a Day
2008
Finding Anastasia
2008
Illicit: The Dark Trade
2008
Alaska Far Away
2008
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
2008
The Brain Fitness Program
2008
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
2007
Fog City Mavericks
2007
Resurrecting the Champ
2007
Hippies
2007
The Sunday Man
2007
Strange Culture
2007
Soldiers Of Conscience
2007
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006
AKA Tommy Chong
2006
The Gospel of Judas
2006
The Gospel of Judas
2006
A Little Trip to Heaven
2005
The Sacramento River of Life
2005
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
2005
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005
The Tribe
2005
Deepwater
2005
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
Commune
2005
The Great Role
2004
Shadow of Fear
2004
Oil on Ice
2004
The Hebrew Hammer
2003
Phenomenon II
2003
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
2003
Northfork
2003
Out of the Blue
2003
Written In Blood
2003
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
2003
Bon Voyage
2003
Grizzly Diaries
2003
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
2002
A Time for Dancing
2002
Femme Fatale
2002
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
2002
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2002
Purpose
2002
A Walk to Remember
2002
Suddenly Naked
2001
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
2001
Midwives
2001
In the Light of Reverence
2001
Jack the Dog
2001
More Dogs Than Bones
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
Emperor of Hemp
1999
Murder on Shadow Mountain
1999
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
1999
Last Call
1999
Patch Adams
1998
Route 9
1998
Indiscreet
1998
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
1998
Seeds Of Doubt
1998
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
1998
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
1998
Sphere
1998
Two for Texas
1998
Avalanche: The White Death
1998
The Secrets of 007
1997
Road Ends
1997
Top of the World
1997
Murder in My Mind
1997
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
1997
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996
Terminal Justice
1996
Dalva
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
Breach of Conduct
1994
The Peyote Road
1994
Kika
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
Poison in the Rockies
1990
Unconquered
1989
Heart of Midnight
1988
Baja Oklahoma
1988
Echoes in the Darkness
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
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
1985
The Legend of Billie Jean
1985
Scorned and Swindled
1984
Heartbreakers
1984
Best Kept Secrets
1984
Slayground
1983
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
1983
Cross Creek
1983
Strangers Kiss
1983
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
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
Hayden's Corner
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
TV Shows (61)
The American Revolution
2025
Kennedy
2023
The American Buffalo
2023
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
2023
La Californie !
2023
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
Benjamin Franklin
2022
The Tent Mender
2021
Hemingway
2021
The Comey Rule
2020
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
2020
Country Music
2019
The Disappearance
2017
The Vietnam War
2017
The Spoils Before Dying
2015
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
Intelligence
2014
The Dust Bowl
2012
Dangerous Waters
2012
Perception
2012
Prohibition
2011
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011
Great Migrations
2010
Law & Order: LA
2010
Blue Bloods
2010
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009
FlashForward
2009
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
2009
Brothers and Sisters
2006
Commander in Chief
2005
Guns Germs & Steel
2005
The Inside
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
The 4400
2004
Deadwood
2004
NCIS
2003
Founding Brothers
2002
The Color of War
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Division
2001
Founding Fathers
2000
The History of Sex
1999
Independent Lens
1999
Rome: Power & Glory
1998
The West
1996
Seduced by Madness
1996
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
1996
Cybill
1995
Fallen Angels
1993
The Simpsons
1989
American Experience
1988
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
The Twilight Zone
1985
Explorer
1985
Explorer
1985
Explorer
1985
The Hitchhiker
1983
Nature
1982
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
The Oscars
1953