
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.

Kurt Potter
Erin Brockovich

Don Bresler
Unforgettable

Keys
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Captain Harold C. Barnes
Sphere

President Adair T. Manning
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

Reverend Sullivan
A Walk to Remember

Bill Davis
Patch Adams

Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore

Narrator
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods

Burt Kruger
$5 a Day

Oscar
Bitter Moon

Michael Sanders
Outrageous Fortune

Nicholas Pierce
Kika

Porter Reese
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

Uncle Charles
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave

Eddie
Northfork

Self
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special

Self
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'

Thomas Krasny
Jagged Edge

Poole
Southern Comfort

Watts
Femme Fatale

Cullen Chandler
Random Hearts

Narrator (voice)
Downwinders and the Radioactive West

Narrator
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Breach of Contract

Herman Finch
Deepwater

Narrstor (voice)
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil

Narrator
Torturing Democracy

President Sterling
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief

Narrator
Nepal Beyond

Detective Darren Cody
More Dogs Than Bones

Frank
A Little Trip to Heaven

Michael McLean
DiDi Hollywood

Hock
All Roads Lead Home

Ringwald
The Legend of Billie Jean

Himself
AKA Tommy Chong

Doc 'The Butcher'
Top of the World

Wyn Michaels
A Time for Dancing

Steele
Endangered Species

Sharpe/Larry
Heart of Midnight

Thomas Morgan
The Gundown

Elliot Arthur
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story

Narrator
One Man, One Cow, One Planet

Self - Narrator (voice)
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale

Narrator (voice)
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology

Self
These Amazing Shadows

Congressman Henderson
Shadow of Fear

Narrator
Emperor of Hemp

Narrator
Against All Enemies

Richard
Adopt a Sailor

Lionel Heathcote
Suddenly Naked

Steve Elliott
Un homme amoureux

This Is Not a Movie

Martin Conlon
The Basket

Bernard Elias
Purpose

The Gospel of Judas

Narrator
The Gospel of Judas

Xuave
Last Call

Peter Mandrake
A Grande Arte

Dennis Burke
Red Letters

Narrator (voice)
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets

Max Knickerbocker
The Blue Yonder

Blue
Heartbreakers

Rex
Out

Edward Warren
Crooked Hearts

Narration
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer

Rudolph Grichenberg
Le grand rôle

Stone
Slayground

Storyteller
Here

narrator
I am Fishead

Buffalo Bill Cody
Buffalo Girls

Narrator
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve

Narrator
Texas Gold

Self
Strange Culture

Jim Bowie
Two for Texas

Seeds Of Doubt

Stephen Hastings
Midwives

Narrator (voice)
A Cloud Never Dies

Judge Garner
Last Will

Gene Gere
Road Ends

Narrator (voice)
Sunseed: The Journey

Norton Baskin
Cross Creek

Narrator
Angel Azul

William Bradfield Jr.
Echoes in the Darkness

Self
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Narrator
Fields of Gold

John Traveller
Written In Blood

Detective Roos
Indiscreet

Narrator (Voice)
The Ghost Army

Matt Townsend
Child's Cry

Frank Mitchell
Best Kept Secrets

Self
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter

Young David
Tell Me a Riddle

Narrator
Wandering...But Not Lost

Narrator
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Deacon Vivyan
Terminal Justice

Self
Soldiers Of Conscience

Narrator
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens

Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
Route 9

Crooker
La Rançon de la gloire

National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon

George Bolen
People vs. Jean Harris

Narrator
Almost Thirteen

Henry Warburton
That Eye, the Sky

Narrator (voice)
Out of the Blue

Narrator (voice)
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

narrator
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey

Self - Narrator (voice)
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

Narrator (voice)
Moment of Contact

Narrator
Rise Above the Mark

Narrator
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction

Burt Lowell
On a Marché sur Bangkok

Narrator
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72

Stanley, the Director
Strangers Kiss

Narrator
Right to Play

Les Diggers De San Francisco

Self
Hippies

Narrator
The Atomic Tree

Narrator (voice)
The Secrets of 007

Arthur Lefcourt
Murder in My Mind

Narrator
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story

Ben
Americana

Self - Narrator (voice)
National Geographic's Storm of the Century

Narrator
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America

Davis
Die Laughing

Self - Narrator (voice)
Illicit: The Dark Trade

Police Chief Williams
No Deposit

Narrator
Oil on Ice

Narrator (voice)
The Last Stand

Le Père
L'Échappée belle

Col. Andrew Case
Breach of Conduct

Aldo Leopold (voice)
Green Fire

Courtney Taylor
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story

Narrator
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form

Narrator
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats

Langley
Good Kill

Narrator (voice)
Bad Faith

Richmond Flowers Sr.
Unconquered

Sam Fischetti
Sworn to Silence

Narrator
Avalanche: The White Death

Narrator (voice)
The Co-op Wars

Narrator (voice)
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina

Himself - Narrator
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway

The Voice
The Sunday Man

Vampire Forensics

Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer

Henry Tobel
The Man Inside

Hank Taylor
Girl on the Edge

Narrator (voice)
In the Light of Reverence

Narrator (voice)
Poison in the Rockies

Narrator (voice)
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

Harvey Milk
Execution of Justice

Narrator
Missing in Tibet

Principal Umber
1 Mile To You

Slick Henderson
Baja Oklahoma

Narrator (voice)
Grizzly Diaries

Self
Huxley on Huxley

Alex Winckler
Bon voyage

Ruben Borchardt
Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story

Narrator (voice)
The Program

Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
Murder on Shadow Mountain

Narrator
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder

John Ringold
Phenomenon II

Himself
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.

Himself
Polanski y los ojos del mal

The Brain Fitness Program

Narrator
Alaska Far Away

Don Wigulow
The Wednesday Woman

Voice
The Tribe

Self
Spielberg

JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
The Hebrew Hammer

Uncle Charles
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis

The Photographer
Stacking

Narrator (voice)
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

Professor
The Etruscan Smile

Self
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

The UFO Experience

Digger
The Hippie Temptation

Maury Maverick
A Single Woman

Frank Nordhall
Keeper of the City

Himself - Narrator
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple

Narrator
Search for the Submarine I-52

Self - Narrator (voice)
The Mayo Clinic

Anthony Ristelli
Scorned and Swindled

Himself
Summer of Love

Michael
Dalva

Wynn Thomas
Isabel's Choice

Ike Epstein
Resurrecting the Champ

Narrator
The War Prayer

Narrator
The Remarkable Life of John Weld

Paul
Moonlight and Valentino

Self
The Reality of Truth

Narrator (voice)
I Know What I Saw

Narrator
With One Voice

Maxwell Perkins
Hemingway & Gellhorn

Narrator
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork

Reader (voice)
Earth and the American Dream

Self
Bag It

Narrator
The Sacramento River of Life

Narrator, English version (voice)
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity

Self - Narrator (voice)
Climbing Redwood Giants

Narrator (voice)
The Phenomenon

self, Black Bear resident
Commune

Narrator
Oceans in Glass

Narrator (voice)
Os Mistérios de Lisboa ou What The Tourist Should See

Matt
Living a Lie

Narrator
American Cinema

Narrator (voice)
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

Sam Donovan
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles

Edward G. Drexler
Valparaiso

Narrator
As If They Were Angels

Self - Narrator (voice)
Fog City Mavericks

Frank Maguire
A Seduction in Travis County

Self
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre

Narrator (voice)
A Coup in Camelot

Narrator/SInger
San Francisco Stories

Self
Good Men

Narrator
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut

Alfred
Jack the Dog

Narrator
Unelmoija ja unikansa

Narrator
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision

Self
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder

Narrator
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact

Narrator
The Peyote Road

Narrator
Titanic: Breaking New Ground

Narrator
National Geographic: Surviving Everest

Narrator (voice)
Hayden's Corner

Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties

Self
Spirit of Golf

Narrator
A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education

Narrator
Finding Anastasia

Narrator (voice)
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces

Saving Atlantis

Narrator
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
234
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-10-10
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon