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.
Movie | The Sacramento River of Life | Narrator | 2025 |
Movie | Fields of Gold | Narrator | 2023-08-18 |
Movie | Against All Enemies | Narrator | 2023-06-08 |
Movie | The Phenomenon | Narrator (voice) | 2020-10-06 |
Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Professor | 2019-05-03 |
Series | Country Music | Narrator | 2019-09-15 |
Movie | Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre | Self | 2019-11-04 |
Movie | 1 Mile To You | Principal Umber | 2017-04-07 |
Movie | The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple | Himself - Narrator | 2017-06-03 |
Series | The Disappearance | Henry Sullivan | 2017-10-01 |
Movie | Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
Series | The Vietnam War | Narrator (voice) | 2017-09-17 |
Movie | Americana | Ben | 2016-06-09 |
Movie | The Price of Fame | Crooker | 2015-01-07 |
Movie | Good Kill | Langley | 2015-04-09 |
Movie | Girl on the Edge | Hank Taylor | 2015-02-23 |
Movie | No Deposit | Police Chief Williams | 2015-04-24 |
Movie | Eva & Leon | Le Père | 2015-06-17 |
Movie | Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy | Himself | 2015-10-10 |
Series | The Spoils Before Dying | Dizzy the Cat | 2015-07-08 |
Movie | Bangkok, We Have A Problem! | Burt Lowell | 2014-10-22 |
Series | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | Narrator (voice) | 2014-09-14 |
Movie | Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal | Self | 2013-02-01 |
Movie | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Maxwell Perkins | 2012-08-27 |
Movie | Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72 | Narrator | 2012-01-02 |
Series | The Dust Bowl | Peter Coyote | 2012-11-18 |
Movie | Rise Above the Mark | Narrator | 2012-12-12 |
Movie | This Is Not a Movie | 2011-01-28 | |
Movie | Here | Storyteller | 2011-01-21 |
Movie | These Amazing Shadows | Self | 2011-01-22 |
Movie | Last Will | Judge Garner | 2011-03-22 |
Series | Prohibition | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2011-10-02 |
Movie | Bag It | Self | 2011-09-01 |
Movie | The Gundown | Thomas Morgan | 2011-09-12 |
Movie | I am Fishead | narrator | 2011-09-11 |
Movie | What If Cannabis Cured Cancer | Narration | 2010-07-05 |
Movie | Vampire Forensics | 2010-01-12 | |
Movie | DiDi Hollywood | Michael McLean | 2010-10-15 |
Series | Great Migrations | 2010-11-07 | |
Movie | Huxley on Huxley | Self | 2009-03-17 |
Series | Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League | Himself - Narrator | 2009-09-16 |
Series | The National Parks: America's Best Idea | Narrator | 2009-09-27 |
Series | FlashForward | President Dave Segovia | 2009-09-24 |
Movie | All Roads Lead Home | Hock | 2008-01-01 |
Movie | Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief | President Sterling | 2008-03-04 |
Movie | $5 a Day | Burt Kruger | 2008-09-06 |
Movie | Adopt a Sailor | Richard | 2008-10-24 |
Movie | Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story | Elliot Arthur | 2008-11-06 |
Movie | A Single Woman | Maury Maverick | 2008-09-21 |
Movie | Strange Culture | Self | 2007-02-09 |
Movie | Resurrecting the Champ | Ike Epstein | 2007-06-14 |
Movie | Hippies | Himself | 2007-06-12 |
Movie | Fog City Mavericks | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2007-10-24 |
Movie | AKA Tommy Chong | Himself | 2006-06-14 |
Movie | The Gospel of Judas | Narrator | 2006-04-05 |
Movie | Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home | Narrator | 2006-07-12 |
Movie | Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil | President Adair T. Manning | 2006-10-17 |
Series | The Inside | Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster | 2005-06-08 |
Movie | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Narrator | 2005-04-22 |
Movie | Deepwater | Herman Finch | 2005-06-09 |
Movie | Berkeley | Narrator (voice) | 2005-10-08 |
Movie | A Little Trip to Heaven | Frank | 2005-12-26 |
Movie | Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis | Uncle Charles | 2005-10-15 |
Movie | Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave | Uncle Charles | 2005-10-15 |
Movie | Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer | 2004-02-27 | |
Movie | Shadow of Fear | Congressman Henderson | 2004-09-14 |
Movie | The Great Role | Rudolph Grichenberg | 2004-10-13 |
Movie | The Hebrew Hammer | JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal | 2003-01-23 |
Movie | Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction Of Northfork | Narrator | 2003-12-30 |
Movie | Bon Voyage | Alex Winckler | 2003-04-16 |
Movie | Phenomenon II | John Ringold | 2003-11-01 |
Movie | Written In Blood | John Traveller | 2003-05-09 |
Movie | Northfork | Eddie | 2003-07-11 |
Movie | A Walk to Remember | Reverend Sullivan | 2002-01-25 |
Movie | Purpose | Bernard Elias | 2002-02-21 |
Movie | Femme Fatale | Watts | 2002-04-30 |
Movie | A Time for Dancing | Wyn Michaels | 2002-09-06 |
Movie | Polanski y los ojos del mal | Himself | 2002-04-16 |
Movie | Midwives | Stephen Hastings | 2001-04-02 |
Movie | Suddenly Naked | Lionel Heathcote | 2001-09-08 |
Movie | The Basket | Martin Conlon | 2000-05-05 |
Movie | Erin Brockovich | Kurt Potter | 2000-03-17 |
Movie | The Wednesday Woman | Don Wigulow | 2000-05-24 |
Movie | Red Letters | Dennis Burke | 2000-06-09 |
Movie | More Dogs Than Bones | Detective Darren Cody | 2000-07-14 |
Movie | Last Call | Xuave | 1999-01-03 |
Movie | National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway | Himself - Narrator | 1999-04-14 |
Movie | Murder on Shadow Mountain | Dennis 'Denny' Traynor | 1999-05-25 |
Movie | Random Hearts | Cullen Chandler | 1999-10-08 |
Movie | Execution of Justice | Harvey Milk | 1999-11-28 |
Movie | Indiscreet | Detective Roos | 1998-08-28 |
Movie | Two for Texas | Jim Bowie | 1998-01-18 |
Movie | Sphere | Captain Harold C. Barnes | 1998-02-13 |
Movie | Top of the World | Doc 'The Butcher' | 1998-09-29 |
Movie | Route 9 | Sheriff Dwayne Hogan | 1998-11-20 |
Movie | Patch Adams | Bill Davis | 1998-12-25 |
Movie | Murder in My Mind | Arthur Lefcourt | 1997-02-19 |
Movie | Road Ends | Gene Gere | 1997-10-05 |
Movie | Unforgettable | Don Bresler | 1996-02-23 |
Movie | Dalva | Michael | 1996-03-03 |
Movie | Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story | Ruben Borchardt | 1996-02-25 |
Movie | Terminal Justice | Deacon Vivyan | 1996-04-01 |
Movie | The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' | Self | 1996-10-01 |
Series | The West | Self - Narrator | 1996-09-15 |
Movie | The History of Rock 'n' Roll | Self | 1995-03-06 |
Movie | Buffalo Girls | Buffalo Bill Cody | 1995-04-30 |
Movie | The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Narrator | 1995-06-05 |
Movie | That Eye, the Sky | Henry Warburton | 1995-09-28 |
Movie | Moonlight and Valentino | Paul | 1995-09-29 |
Movie | Breach of Conduct | Col. Andrew Case | 1994-12-01 |
Movie | Kika | Nicholas Pierce | 1993-10-29 |
Movie | Bitter Moon | Oscar | 1992-09-02 |
Movie | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | 1992-10-01 |
Movie | Keeper of the City | Frank Nordhall | 1991-12-20 |
Movie | High Art | Peter Mandrake | 1991-06-01 |
Movie | Living a Lie | Matt | 1991-09-16 |
Movie | Crooked Hearts | Edward Warren | 1991-09-06 |
Movie | Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey | Narrator (voice) | 1990-01-19 |
Movie | The Man Inside | Henry Tobel | 1990-10-26 |
Movie | Unconquered | Richmond Flowers Sr. | 1989-01-15 |
Movie | Heart of Midnight | Sharpe/Larry | 1988-11-10 |
Movie | Baja Oklahoma | Slick Henderson | 1988-02-20 |
Movie | Stacking | The Photographer | 1987-01-22 |
Movie | Echoes in the Darkness | William Bradfield Jr. | 1987-11-01 |
Movie | Outrageous Fortune | Michael Sanders | 1987-01-30 |
Movie | Sworn to Silence | Sam Fischetti | 1987-04-06 |
Movie | A Man in Love | Steve Elliott | 1987-05-07 |
Movie | Child's Cry | Matt Townsend | 1986-02-09 |
Movie | The Legend of Billie Jean | Lt. Larry Ringwald | 1985-07-19 |
Movie | The Blue Yonder | Max Knickerbocker | 1985-11-10 |
Movie | Jagged Edge | Thomas Krasny | 1985-10-04 |
Movie | Best Kept Secrets | Frank Mitchell | 1984-03-26 |
Movie | Heartbreakers | Blue | 1984-09-28 |
Movie | Strangers Kiss | Stanley, the Director | 1983-09-17 |
Movie | Slayground | Stone | 1983-12-01 |
Movie | Cross Creek | Norton Baskin | 1983-09-21 |
Movie | Out | Rex | 1982-01-01 |
Movie | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Keys | 1982-06-11 |
Movie | The UFO Experience | 1982-11-14 | |
Movie | Endangered Species | Steele | 1982-09-10 |
Movie | Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann | Porter Reese | 1982-08-27 |
Movie | People vs. Jean Harris | George Bolen | 1981-05-07 |
Movie | Southern Comfort | Poole | 1981-09-24 |
Movie | Isabel's Choice | Wynn Thomas | 1981-12-16 |
Movie | Die Laughing | Davis | 1980-04-01 |
Movie | Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story | Courtney Taylor | 1980-11-05 |
Movie | Tell Me a Riddle | Young David | 1980-12-15 |
Movie | The Hippie Temptation | Digger | 1967-08-21 |