Peter Coyote profile
Actor profile

Peter Coyote

10th October 1941 New York City, New York, USA Acting

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.

214 Movies 62 TV Shows 301 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Bag It poster
Bag It 1st September 2011 as Self
Here poster
Here 21st January 2011 as Storyteller
Commune poster
Commune 7th April 2005 as self, Black Bear resident
Purpose poster
Purpose 21st February 2002 as Bernard Elias
Midwives poster
Midwives 2nd April 2001 as Stephen Hastings
Route 9 poster
Route 9 20th November 1998 as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
Sphere poster
Sphere 13th February 1998 as Captain Harold C. Barnes
Dalva poster
Dalva 3rd March 1996 as Michael
Kika poster
Kika 29th October 1993 as Nicholas Pierce
Stacking poster
Stacking 22nd January 1987 as The Photographer
Out poster
Out 1st January 1982 as Rex
Kennedy poster
Kennedy 18th November 2023 as Narrator (voice)
The Inside poster
The Inside 8th June 2005 as Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
Deadwood poster
Deadwood 21st March 2004 as General George Crook
NCIS poster
NCIS 23rd September 2003 as Ned Quinn
Founding Fathers poster
Founding Fathers 27th November 2000 as John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
The West poster
The West 15th September 1996 as Self - Narrator
Explorer poster
Explorer 7th April 1985 as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Nature poster
Nature 10th October 1982 as Narrator (voice)