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
Acting

2000
asKurt Potter

1996
asDon Bresler

1982
asKeys

1998
asCaptain Harold C. Barnes

2006
asPresident Adair T. Manning

2002
asReverend Sullivan

1998
asBill Davis

2001
asVoice of Urban Renewal (Voice)

2014
asNarrator

2008
asBurt Kruger

1992
asOscar

1987
asMichael Sanders

1993
asNicholas Pierce

1982
asPorter Reese

2005
asUncle Charles

2003
asEddie

2002
asSelf

1996
asSelf

1985
asThomas Krasny

1981
asPoole

2002
asWatts

1999
asCullen Chandler

2021
asNarrator (voice)

2005
asNarrator

1982
as
2005
asHerman Finch

2009
asNarrator

2009
asNarrstor (voice)

2008
asPresident Sterling

2021
asNarrator

2000
asDetective Darren Cody

2005
asFrank

2010
asMichael McLean

2008
asHock

1985
asLt. Larry Ringwald

2006
asHimself

1997
asDoc 'The Butcher'

2002
asWyn Michaels

1982
asSteele

1988
asSharpe/Larry

2011
asThomas Morgan

2008
asElliot Arthur

2007
asNarrator

2019
asSelf - Narrator (voice)

2011
asNarrator (voice)

2011
asSelf

2004
asCongressman Henderson

1999
asNarrator

2023
asNarrator

2008
asRichard

1995
asSelf

2001
asLionel Heathcote

1987
asSteve Elliott

2011
as
2000
asMartin Conlon

2002
asBernard Elias

2006
as
2006
asNarrator

1999
asXuave

1991
asPeter Mandrake

2000
asDennis Burke

2002
asNarrator (voice)

1985
asMax Knickerbocker

1984
asBlue

1982
asRex

1991
asEdward Warren

2010
asNarration

2004
asRudolph Grichenberg

1983
asStone

2011
asStoryteller

2011
asnarrator

1995
asBuffalo Bill Cody

2021
asNarrator

2008
asNarrator

2007
asSelf

1998
asJim Bowie

1998
as
2001
asStephen Hastings

2022
asNarrator (voice)

2011
asJudge Garner

1997
asGene Gere

2020
asNarrator (voice)

1983
asNorton Baskin

2014
asNarrator

1987
asWilliam Bradfield Jr.

2013
asSelf

2023
asNarrator

2003
asJohn Traveller

1998
asDetective Roos

2013
asNarrator (Voice)

1986
asMatt Townsend

1984
asFrank Mitchell

2022
asSelf

1980
asYoung David

2021
asNarrator

1995
asNarrator

1996
asDeacon Vivyan

2007
asSelf

1997
asNarrator

1998
asSheriff Dwayne Hogan

2015
asCrooker
as
1981
asGeorge Bolen

2020
asNarrator

1995
asHenry Warburton

2003
asNarrator (voice)

1985
asNarrator (voice)

2019
asnarrator

2009
asSelf - Narrator (voice)

2012
asNarrator

2022
asNarrator (voice)

2010
asNarrator

2014
asBurt Lowell

2012
asNarrator

1983
asStanley, the Director

2012
asNarrator

1998
as
2007
asSelf

2019
asNarrator

1997
asNarrator (voice)

1997
asArthur Lefcourt

2022
asNarrator

2016
asBen

1998
asSelf - Narrator (voice)

1988
asNarrator

1980
asDavis

2008
asSelf - Narrator (voice)

2015
asPolice Chief Williams

2004
asNarrator

2022
asNarrator (voice)

2015
asLe Père

1994
asCol. Andrew Case

2011
asAldo Leopold (voice)

1980
asCourtney Taylor

2013
asNarrator

1985
asNarrator

2015
asLangley

2024
asNarrator (voice)

1989
asRichmond Flowers Sr.

1987
asSam Fischetti

1998
asNarrator

2021
asNarrator (voice)

2003
asNarrator (voice)

1999
asHimself - Narrator

2007
asThe Voice

2010
as
2004
as
1990
asHenry Tobel

2015
asHank Taylor

1990
asNarrator (voice)

2001
asNarrator (voice)

1983
asNarrator (voice)

1999
asHarvey Milk

1999
asNarrator

2017
asPrincipal Umber

1988
asSlick Henderson

2003
asNarrator (voice)

2009
asSelf

2003
asAlex Winckler

1996
asRuben Borchardt

2024
asNarrator (voice)

1999
asDennis 'Denny' Traynor

2009
asNarrator

2003
asJohn Ringold

2016
asHimself

2002
asHimself

2008
as
2008
asNarrator

2000
asDon Wigulow

2005
asVoice

2017
asSelf

2003
asJJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal

2005
asUncle Charles

1987
asThe Photographer

1990
asNarrator (voice)

2018
asProfessor

2015
asSelf

1982
as
1967
asDigger

2008
asMaury Maverick

1991
asFrank Nordhall

2017
asHimself - Narrator

2000
asNarrator

2018
asSelf - Narrator (voice)

1984
asAnthony Ristelli

2018
asHimself

1996
asMichael

1981
asWynn Thomas

2007
asIke Epstein

2005
asNarrator

2018
asNarrator

1995
asPaul

2016
asSelf

2009
asNarrator (voice)

2009
asNarrator

2012
asMaxwell Perkins

2003
asNarrator

1992
asReader (voice)

2011
asSelf

2005
asNarrator

1998
asNarrator, English version (voice)

2009
asSelf - Narrator (voice)

2020
asNarrator (voice)

2005
asself, Black Bear resident

2011
asNarrator

2009
asNarrator (voice)

1991
asMatt

1995
asNarrator

2006
asNarrator (voice)

2021
asSam Donovan

2012
asEdward G. Drexler

2018
asNarrator

2007
asSelf - Narrator (voice)

1991
asFrank Maguire

2019
asSelf

2015
asNarrator (voice)
asNarrator/SInger

2024
asSelf
asNarrator

2001
asAlfred

1998
asNarrator

2010
asNarrator

2025
asSelf

2009
asNarrator

1994
asNarrator

1998
asNarrator

2003
asNarrator
asNarrator (voice)

2017
as
asGeneral Crook
asMark August
asRoss
as(segment "Shadow Play")
asMike LaSalle
asSpecial Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
asNed Quinn
as
asNarrator (voice)
asHimself - Narrator
asAlex Nolan
asNarrator
asNarrator (voice)
as
asSelf
asRuben Borchardt
asSelf - Narrator
asNarrator
asSelf - Narrator
asLeland Strand
asJames Alan Pierce
asas Narrator
asDave Segovia
asSelf - Actor / Activist
asNarrator (voice)
asJerry Hardin
asDennis Ryland
asHenry Sullivan
asHimself - Narrator
asPeter Coyote (voice)
asNarrator (voice)
asNarrator (voice)
asNarrator (voice)
asDizzy the Cat
asPeter Coyote
as
asSelf - Narrator (voice)
asNarrator (voice)
asSenator Ted McCreary
asSelf - Narrator
asSelf - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
asNarrator (voice)
asNarrator (voice)
asSelf
asJohn Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
asHerman Charn
asHimself - Narrator (voice)
asNarrator
asWarren Keaton
asNarrator
as
asWilliam Bradfield Jr.
asCourtney Taylor
asHimself
asLionel Shill
asRobert Mueller
asSelf - Narrator (voice)
asNarrator (voice)
asself
asSelf - Narrator (voice)
Production
Crew

2016
as
1991
asDirecting