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