Peter Coyote

Known for ActingBorn 1941-10-10 (age 84)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

A Coup in Camelot

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League

The Sacramento River of Life

Oil on Ice

Founding Brothers

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore

21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777

The Pacific Century

Living a Lie

Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

Stacking

The UFO Experience

The History of Sex

Unconquered

Rise Above the Mark

Search for the Submarine I-52

A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe

Rome: Power & Glory

What If Cannabis Cured Cancer

Fog City Mavericks

The U.S. and the Holocaust

The Vietnam War

The West

La Californie !

Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Deadwood

The Ghost Army

What The Tourist Should See

Against All Enemies

Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina

Polanski y los ojos del mal

The Dust Bowl

Prohibition

The Color of War

The Wednesday Woman

Founding Fathers

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

National Geographic's Storm of the Century

Avalanche: The White Death

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Benjamin Franklin

Blue Bloods

The Simpsons

The Secrets of 007

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History