Peter Coyote
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
The Program
Narrator (voice)
Bad Faith
Narrator (voice)
Fields of Gold
Narrator
Against All Enemies
Narrator
Moment of Contact
Narrator (voice)
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
Narrator
The Last Stand
Narrator (voice)
A Cloud Never Dies
Narrator (voice)
The Co-op Wars
Narrator (voice)
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
Sam Donovan
Wandering...But Not Lost
Narrator
Nepal Beyond
Narrator
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
Narrator (voice)
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
Narrator
The Phenomenon
Narrator (voice)
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
Narrator (voice)
Sunseed: The Journey
Narrator (voice)
Almost Thirteen
Narrator
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
narrator
The Atomic Tree
Narrator
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
Narrator
As If They Were Angels
Narrator
The Etruscan Smile
Professor
Saving Atlantis
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
1 Mile To You
Principal Umber
Americana
Ben
A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education
Narrator
Eva & Leon
Le Père
No Deposit
Police Chief Williams
A Coup in Camelot
Narrator (voice)
Good Kill
Langley
Girl on the Edge
Hank Taylor
The Price of Fame
Crooker
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
Burt Lowell
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
Narrator
Angel Azul
Narrator
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
Narrator
The Ghost Army
Narrator (Voice)
Rise Above the Mark
Narrator
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Maxwell Perkins
Right to Play
Narrator
Valparaiso
Edward G. Drexler
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
Narrator
The Gundown
Thomas Morgan
I am Fishead
narrator
Oceans in Glass
Narrator
Last Will
Judge Garner
Green Fire
Aldo Leopold (voice)
This Is Not a Movie
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
Narrator (voice)
Here
Storyteller
DiDi Hollywood
Michael McLean
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
Narrator
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
Narration
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
Narrator
Vampire Forensics
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Narrstor (voice)
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
Narrator
I Know What I Saw
Narrator (voice)
With One Voice
Narrator
What The Tourist Should See
Narrator (voice)
Torturing Democracy
Narrator
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
Narrator
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
Elliot Arthur
Adopt a Sailor
Richard
A Single Woman
Maury Maverick
$5 a Day
Burt Kruger
Finding Anastasia
Narrator
Alaska Far Away
Narrator
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
President Sterling
The Brain Fitness Program
All Roads Lead Home
Hock
Texas Gold
Narrator
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Narrator
Resurrecting the Champ
Ike Epstein
The Sunday Man
The Voice
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
President Adair T. Manning
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Narrator (voice)
The Gospel of Judas
A Little Trip to Heaven
Frank
The Sacramento River of Life
Narrator
The War Prayer
Narrator
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
Uncle Charles
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
Uncle Charles
The Tribe
Voice
Deepwater
Herman Finch
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Narrator
The Great Role
Rudolph Grichenberg
Shadow of Fear
Congressman Henderson
Oil on Ice
Narrator
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
Narrator
The Hebrew Hammer
JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
Phenomenon II
John Ringold
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
Narrator (voice)
Northfork
Eddie
Out of the Blue
Narrator (voice)
Written In Blood
John Traveller
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
Narrator
Bon Voyage
Alex Winckler
Grizzly Diaries
Narrator (voice)
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
Narrator
A Time for Dancing
Wyn Michaels
Femme Fatale
Watts
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
Narrator (voice)
Purpose
Bernard Elias
A Walk to Remember
Reverend Sullivan
Suddenly Naked
Lionel Heathcote
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
Midwives
Stephen Hastings
In the Light of Reverence
Narrator (voice)
Jack the Dog
Alfred
More Dogs Than Bones
Detective Darren Cody
Red Letters
Dennis Burke
The Wednesday Woman
Don Wigulow
The Basket
Martin Conlon
Erin Brockovich
Kurt Potter
Search for the Submarine I-52
Narrator
Execution of Justice
Harvey Milk
Missing in Tibet
Narrator
Random Hearts
Cullen Chandler
Emperor of Hemp
Narrator
Murder on Shadow Mountain
Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
Last Call
Xuave
Patch Adams
Bill Davis
Route 9
Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
Narrator
Indiscreet
Detective Roos
Seeds Of Doubt
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
Narrator
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
Narrator, English version (voice)
Sphere
Captain Harold C. Barnes
Two for Texas
Jim Bowie
San Francisco Diggers
Avalanche: The White Death
Narrator
The Secrets of 007
Narrator (voice)
Road Ends
Gene Gere
Top of the World
Doc 'The Butcher'
Murder in My Mind
Arthur Lefcourt
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
Narrator
Terminal Justice
Deacon Vivyan
Dalva
Michael
Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
Ruben Borchardt
Unforgettable
Don Bresler
Moonlight and Valentino
Paul
That Eye, the Sky
Henry Warburton
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Narrator
Buffalo Girls
Buffalo Bill Cody
Breach of Conduct
Col. Andrew Case
The Peyote Road
Narrator
Kika
Nicholas Pierce
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Bitter Moon
Oscar
Keeper of the City
Frank Nordhall
Living a Lie
Matt
Crooked Hearts
Edward Warren
High Art
Peter Mandrake
A Seduction in Travis County
Frank Maguire
The Man Inside
Henry Tobel
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Narrator (voice)
Poison in the Rockies
Narrator (voice)
Unconquered
Richmond Flowers Sr.
Heart of Midnight
Sharpe/Larry
Baja Oklahoma
Slick Henderson
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
Narrator
Echoes in the Darkness
William Bradfield Jr.
A Man in Love
Steve Elliott
Sworn to Silence
Sam Fischetti
Outrageous Fortune
Michael Sanders
Stacking
The Photographer
Child's Cry
Matt Townsend
The Blue Yonder
Max Knickerbocker
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Narrator (voice)
Jagged Edge
Thomas Krasny
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
Narrator
The Legend of Billie Jean
Ringwald
Scorned and Swindled
Anthony Ristelli
Heartbreakers
Blue
Best Kept Secrets
Frank Mitchell
Slayground
Stone
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
Narrator (voice)
Cross Creek
Norton Baskin
Strangers Kiss
Stanley, the Director
The UFO Experience
Endangered Species
Steele
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Porter Reese
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Keys
Breach of Contract
Out
Rex
Isabel's Choice
Wynn Thomas
Southern Comfort
Poole
People vs. Jean Harris
George Bolen
Tell Me a Riddle
Young David
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Courtney Taylor
Die Laughing
Davis
The Hippie Temptation
Digger
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
Narrator
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
Hayden's Corner
Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Stories
Narrator/SInger
TV Series
Kennedy
Narrator (voice)
8 Episodes
The American Buffalo
Narrator (voice)
2 Episodes
Benjamin Franklin
Narrator (voice)
2 Episodes
The Tent Mender
as Narrator
3 Episodes
Hemingway
Narrator (voice)
3 Episodes
The Comey Rule
Robert Mueller
2 Episodes
Country Music
Narrator
8 Episodes
The Disappearance
Henry Sullivan
6 Episodes
The Vietnam War
Narrator (voice)
10 Episodes
The Spoils Before Dying
Dizzy the Cat
6 Episodes
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Narrator (voice)
7 Episodes
Intelligence
Leland Strand
3 Episodes
The Dust Bowl
Peter Coyote
2 Episodes
Perception
James Alan Pierce
4 Episodes
Great Migrations
7 Episodes
Law & Order: LA
Jerry Hardin
8 Episodes
Blue Bloods
Senator Ted McCreary
1 Episode
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Narrator
6 Episodes
FlashForward
Dave Segovia
2 Episodes
Brothers and Sisters
Mark August
4 Episodes
Commander in Chief
Warren Keaton
7 Episodes
Guns Germs & Steel
Narrator (voice)
3 Episodes
The Inside
Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
13 Episodes
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Mike LaSalle
1 Episode
The 4400
Dennis Ryland
13 Episodes
Deadwood
General Crook
1 Episode
NCIS
Ned Quinn
1 Episode
Founding Brothers
2 Episodes
The Color of War
Narrator
17 Episodes
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Lionel Shill
1 Episode
The Division
Ross
2 Episodes
Founding Fathers
John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
4 Episodes
Independent Lens
278 Episodes
Rome: Power & Glory
Narrator
8 Episodes
Seduced by Madness
Ruben Borchardt
2 Episodes
Cybill
Roger
1 Episode
Fallen Angels
Herman Charn
1 Episode
The Pacific Century
Narrator (voice)
10 Episodes
The Simpsons
Peter Coyote (voice)
1 Episode
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
2 Episodes
Echoes in the Darkness
William Bradfield Jr.
2 Episodes
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Shadow Play")
1 Episode
Explorer
1 Episode
The Hitchhiker
Alex Nolan
1 Episode
Nature
Narrator (voice)
2 Episodes
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Courtney Taylor
2 Episodes