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
Unforgettable
Don Bresler
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Keys
Sphere
Captain Harold C. Barnes
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
President Adair T. Manning
A Walk to Remember
Reverend Sullivan
Patch Adams
Bill Davis
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
Narrator
$5 a Day
Burt Kruger
Bitter Moon
Oscar
Outrageous Fortune
Michael Sanders
Kika
Nicholas Pierce
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Porter Reese
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
Uncle Charles
Northfork
Eddie
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
Self
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
Self
Jagged Edge
Thomas Krasny
Southern Comfort
Poole
Femme Fatale
Watts
Random Hearts
Cullen Chandler
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
Narrator (voice)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Narrator
Breach of Contract
Deepwater
Herman Finch
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Narrstor (voice)
Torturing Democracy
Narrator
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
President Sterling
Nepal Beyond
Narrator
More Dogs Than Bones
Detective Darren Cody
A Little Trip to Heaven
Frank
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'
A Time for Dancing
Wyn Michaels
Endangered Species
Steele
Heart of Midnight
Sharpe/Larry
The Gundown
Thomas Morgan
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
Elliot Arthur
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Narrator
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
Self - Narrator (voice)
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
Narrator (voice)
These Amazing Shadows
Self
Shadow of Fear
Congressman Henderson
Emperor of Hemp
Narrator
Against All Enemies
Narrator
Adopt a Sailor
Richard
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
Self
Suddenly Naked
Lionel Heathcote
A Man in Love
Steve Elliott
This Is Not a Movie
The Basket
Martin Conlon
Purpose
Bernard Elias
The Gospel of Judas
The Gospel of Judas
Narrator
Last Call
Xuave
High Art
Peter Mandrake
Red Letters
Dennis Burke
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
Narrator (voice)
The Blue Yonder
Max Knickerbocker
Heartbreakers
Blue
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
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
Narrator
Texas Gold
Narrator
Strange Culture
Self
Two for Texas
Jim Bowie
Seeds Of Doubt
Midwives
Stephen Hastings
A Cloud Never Dies
Narrator (voice)
Last Will
Judge Garner
Road Ends
Gene Gere
Sunseed: The Journey
Narrator (voice)
Cross Creek
Norton Baskin
Angel Azul
Narrator
Echoes in the Darkness
William Bradfield Jr.
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
Fields of Gold
Narrator
Written In Blood
John Traveller
Indiscreet
Detective Roos
The Ghost Army
Narrator (Voice)
Child's Cry
Matt Townsend
Best Kept Secrets
Frank Mitchell
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Self
Tell Me a Riddle
Young David
Wandering...But Not Lost
Narrator
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Narrator
Terminal Justice
Deacon Vivyan
Soldiers Of Conscience
Self
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
Narrator
Route 9
Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
The Price of Fame
Crooker
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
People vs. Jean Harris
George Bolen
Almost Thirteen
Narrator
That Eye, the Sky
Henry Warburton
Out of the Blue
Narrator (voice)
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Narrator (voice)
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
narrator
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
Self - Narrator (voice)
Moment of Contact
Narrator (voice)
Rise Above the Mark
Narrator
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
Narrator
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
Burt Lowell
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
Narrator
Strangers Kiss
Stanley, the Director
Right to Play
Narrator
San Francisco Diggers
Hippies
Self
Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters
Narrator
The Atomic Tree
Narrator
The Secrets of 007
Narrator (voice)
Murder in My Mind
Arthur Lefcourt
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
Narrator
Americana
Ben
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
Self - Narrator (voice)
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
Narrator
Die Laughing
Davis
Illicit: The Dark Trade
Self - Narrator (voice)
No Deposit
Police Chief Williams
Oil on Ice
Narrator
The Last Stand
Narrator (voice)
Eva & Leon
Le Père
Breach of Conduct
Col. Andrew Case
Green Fire
Aldo Leopold (voice)
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Courtney Taylor
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
Narrator
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
Narrator
Good Kill
Langley
Bad Faith
Narrator (voice)
Unconquered
Richmond Flowers Sr.
Sworn to Silence
Sam Fischetti
Avalanche: The White Death
Narrator
The Co-op Wars
Narrator
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
Narrator (voice)
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
Himself - Narrator
The Sunday Man
The Voice
Vampire Forensics
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
The Man Inside
Henry Tobel
Girl on the Edge
Hank Taylor
In the Light of Reverence
Narrator (voice)
Poison in the Rockies
Narrator (voice)
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
Narrator (voice)
Execution of Justice
Harvey Milk
Missing in Tibet
Narrator
1 Mile To You
Principal Umber
Baja Oklahoma
Slick Henderson
Grizzly Diaries
Narrator (voice)
Huxley on Huxley
Self
Bon Voyage
Alex Winckler
Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
Ruben Borchardt
The Program
Narrator (voice)
Murder on Shadow Mountain
Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
Narrator
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
Self
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
The Reality of Truth
Self
I Know What I Saw
Narrator (voice)
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
American Cinema
Narrator
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Narrator (voice)
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)
San Francisco Stories
Narrator/SInger
Good Men
Self
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
Narrator
Jack the Dog
Alfred
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
Narrator
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
Narrator
Shows
Deadwood
General Crook
Brothers and Sisters
Mark August
The Division
The Twilight Zone
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Mike LaSalle
The Inside
Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
NCIS
Ned Quinn
Explorer
Hemingway
Narrator (voice)
The History of Sex
Himself - Narrator
The Hitchhiker
Alex Nolan
Rome: Power & Glory
Narrator
Nature
Narrator (voice)
Independent Lens
The Oscars
Self
Seduced by Madness
Ruben Borchardt
The West
Self - Narrator
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Narrator
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Self - Narrator
Intelligence
Leland Strand
Perception
James Alan Pierce
The Tent Mender
as Narrator
FlashForward
Dave Segovia
La Californie !
Self - Actor / Activist
Benjamin Franklin
Narrator (voice)
Law & Order: LA
Jerry Hardin
The 4400
Dennis Ryland
The Disappearance
Henry Sullivan
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
Himself - Narrator
The Simpsons
Peter Coyote (voice)
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Narrator (voice)
The Vietnam War
Narrator (voice)
The Spoils Before Dying
Dizzy the Cat
The Dust Bowl
Peter Coyote
Great Migrations
Prohibition
Self - Narrator (voice)
Kennedy
Narrator (voice)
Blue Bloods
Senator Ted McCreary
Explorer
Self - Narrator
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
Guns Germs & Steel
Narrator (voice)
The American Buffalo
Narrator (voice)
Dangerous Waters
Self
Founding Fathers
John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Fallen Angels
Herman Charn
Explorer
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Color of War
Narrator
Commander in Chief
Warren Keaton
Country Music
Narrator
Founding Brothers
Echoes in the Darkness
William Bradfield Jr.
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Courtney Taylor
The Real History of Science Fiction
Himself
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Lionel Shill
The Comey Rule
Robert Mueller
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
Self - Narrator (voice)