Peter Coyote

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1941-10-10 (83 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon

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.

Known For

Actor

San Francisco Stories

as Narrator/SInger

2024
The Program

as Narrator (voice)

2024
Good Men

as Self

2024
Bad Faith

as Narrator (voice)

2023
Fields of Gold

as Narrator

2023
2023
Kennedy

as Narrator (voice)

2023
The American Buffalo

as Narrator (voice)

2023
La Californie !

as Self - Actor / Activist

2022
Moment of Contact

as Narrator (voice)

2022
The Last Stand

as Narrator (voice)

2022
A Cloud Never Dies

as Narrator (voice)

2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust

as Self - Narrator

2022
Benjamin Franklin

as Narrator (voice)

2021
The Co-op Wars

as Narrator

2021
2021
Nepal Beyond

as Narrator

2021
2021
The Tent Mender

as as Narrator

2021
Hemingway

as Narrator (voice)

2020
The Phenomenon

as Narrator (voice)

2020
Sunseed: The Journey

as Narrator (voice)

2020
Almost Thirteen

as Narrator

2020
The Comey Rule

as Robert Mueller

2020
Helter Skelter: An American Myth

as Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member

2019
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2019
The Atomic Tree

as Narrator

2019
Country Music

as Narrator

2018
2018
The Mayo Clinic

as Narrator

2018
Summer of Love

as Himself

2018
The Etruscan Smile

as Professor

2017
Spielberg

as Self

2017
1 Mile To You

as Principal Umber

2017
The Disappearance

as Henry Sullivan

2017
The Vietnam War

as Narrator (voice)

2016
Americana

as Ben

2015
Eva & Leon

as Le Père

2015
No Deposit

as Police Chief Williams

2015
A Coup in Camelot

as Narrator (voice)

2015
Good Kill

as Langley

2015
Girl on the Edge

as Hank Taylor

2015
2015
The Spoils Before Dying

as Dizzy the Cat

2014
2014
Angel Azul

as Narrator

2014
2014
Intelligence

as Leland Strand

2013
The Ghost Army

as Narrator (Voice)

2012
2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn

as Maxwell Perkins

2012
Right to Play

as Narrator

2012
Valparaiso

as Edward G. Drexler

2012
The Dust Bowl

as Peter Coyote

2012
2012
Perception

as James Alan Pierce

2011
The Gundown

as Thomas Morgan

2011
I am Fishead

as narrator

2011
Bag It

as Self

2011
Oceans in Glass

as Narrator

2011
Last Will

as Judge Garner

2011
Green Fire

as Aldo Leopold (voice)

2011
Here

as Storyteller

2011
Prohibition

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2010
DiDi Hollywood

as Michael McLean

2010
Law & Order: LA

as Jerry Hardin

2010
Blue Bloods

as Senator Ted McCreary

2009
2009
I Know What I Saw

as Narrator (voice)

2009
Climbing Redwood Giants

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2009
With One Voice

as Narrator

2009
What The Tourist Should See

as Narrator (voice)

2009
2009
2009
FlashForward

as Dave Segovia

2008
Adopt a Sailor

as Richard

2008
A Single Woman

as Maury Maverick

2008
$5 a Day

as Burt Kruger

2008
Illicit: The Dark Trade

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2008
Alaska Far Away

as Narrator

2008
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief

as President Sterling

2008
Texas Gold

as Narrator

2007
Fog City Mavericks

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2007
Resurrecting the Champ

as Ike Epstein

2007
Hippies

as Self

2007
The Sunday Man

as The Voice

2007
2006
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

as President Adair T. Manning

2006
2006
AKA Tommy Chong

as Himself

2006
2006
Brothers and Sisters

as Mark August

2005
The War Prayer

as Narrator

2005
The Tribe

as Voice

2005
Deepwater

as Herman Finch

2005
Commune

as self, Black Bear resident

2005
Commander in Chief

as Warren Keaton

2005
Guns Germs & Steel

as Narrator (voice)

2005
The Inside

as Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster

2005
2004
The Great Role

as Rudolph Grichenberg

2004
Shadow of Fear

as Congressman Henderson

2004
Oil on Ice

as Narrator

2004
The 4400

as Dennis Ryland

2004
Deadwood

as General Crook

2003
The Hebrew Hammer

as JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal

2003
Phenomenon II

as John Ringold

2003
2003
Northfork

as Eddie

2003
Out of the Blue

as Narrator (voice)

2003
Written In Blood

as John Traveller

2003
Bon Voyage

as Alex Winckler

2003
Grizzly Diaries

as Narrator (voice)

2003
NCIS

as Ned Quinn

2002
A Time for Dancing

as Wyn Michaels

2002
Femme Fatale

as Watts

2002
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets

as Narrator (voice)

2002
Purpose

as Bernard Elias

2002
A Walk to Remember

as Reverend Sullivan

2001
Suddenly Naked

as Lionel Heathcote

2001
Midwives

as Stephen Hastings

2001
In the Light of Reverence

as Narrator (voice)

2001
Jack the Dog

as Alfred

2001
The Color of War

as Narrator

2001
2000
More Dogs Than Bones

as Detective Darren Cody

2000
Red Letters

as Dennis Burke

2000
The Wednesday Woman

as Don Wigulow

2000
The Basket

as Martin Conlon

2000
Erin Brockovich

as Kurt Potter

2000
Founding Fathers

as John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)

1999
Execution of Justice

as Harvey Milk

1999
Missing in Tibet

as Narrator

1999
Random Hearts

as Cullen Chandler

1999
Emperor of Hemp

as Narrator

1999
Murder on Shadow Mountain

as Dennis 'Denny' Traynor

1999
Last Call

as Xuave

1999
The History of Sex

as Himself - Narrator

1998
Patch Adams

as Bill Davis

1998
Route 9

as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan

1998
Indiscreet

as Detective Roos

1998
1998
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity

as Narrator, English version (voice)

1998
Sphere

as Captain Harold C. Barnes

1998
Two for Texas

as Jim Bowie

1998
1997
The Secrets of 007

as Narrator (voice)

1997
Road Ends

as Gene Gere

1997
Top of the World

as Doc 'The Butcher'

1997
Murder in My Mind

as Arthur Lefcourt

1996
Terminal Justice

as Deacon Vivyan

1996
Dalva

as Michael

1996
Unforgettable

as Don Bresler

1996
The West

as Self - Narrator

1996
Seduced by Madness

as Ruben Borchardt

1996
1995
That Eye, the Sky

as Henry Warburton

1995
Buffalo Girls

as Buffalo Bill Cody

1995
American Cinema

as Narrator

1994
Breach of Conduct

as Col. Andrew Case

1993
Kika

as Nicholas Pierce

1993
Fallen Angels

as Herman Charn

1992
1992
Bitter Moon

as Oscar

1991
Keeper of the City

as Frank Nordhall

1991
Living a Lie

as Matt

1991
Crooked Hearts

as Edward Warren

1991
High Art

as Peter Mandrake

1991
1990
The Man Inside

as Henry Tobel

1990
1990
Poison in the Rockies

as Narrator (voice)

1989
Unconquered

as Richmond Flowers Sr.

1989
The Simpsons

as Peter Coyote (voice)

1988
Heart of Midnight

as Sharpe/Larry

1988
Baja Oklahoma

as Slick Henderson

1988
American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

1987
Echoes in the Darkness

as William Bradfield Jr.

1987
A Man in Love

as Steve Elliott

1987
Sworn to Silence

as Sam Fischetti

1987
Outrageous Fortune

as Michael Sanders

1987
Stacking

as The Photographer

1987
Echoes in the Darkness

as William Bradfield Jr.

1986
Child's Cry

as Matt Townsend

1985
The Blue Yonder

as Max Knickerbocker

1985
Jagged Edge

as Thomas Krasny

1985
The Legend of Billie Jean

as Lt. Larry Ringwald

1985
Explorer

as Self - Narrator

1985
Explorer

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

1984
Scorned and Swindled

as Anthony Ristelli

1984
1984
Best Kept Secrets

as Frank Mitchell

1983
Slayground

as Stone

1983
Cross Creek

as Norton Baskin

1983
Strangers Kiss

as Stanley, the Director

1983
The Hitchhiker

as Alex Nolan

1982
1982
Out

as Rex

1982
Nature

as Narrator (voice)

1981
Isabel's Choice

as Wynn Thomas

1981
1981
People vs. Jean Harris

as George Bolen

1980
Tell Me a Riddle

as Young David

1980
1980
Die Laughing

as Davis

1980
1967
1953
The Oscars

as Self