Peter Coyote
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.
297 acting credits
Acting · 297
NCIS
2003
The Simpsons
1989
Blue Bloods
2010
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
American Experience
1988
The Twilight Zone
1985
Nature
1982
The Division
2001
Deadwood
2004
Brothers and Sisters
2006
Independent Lens
1999
The 4400
2004
Perception
2012
Cybill
1995
The Oscars
1953
Law & Order: LA
2010
The Hitchhiker
1983
FlashForward
2009
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
Fallen Angels
1993
Commander in Chief
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
The American Revolution
2025
The Inside
2005
Intelligence
2014
Bitter Moon
1992
A Walk to Remember
2002
The West
1996
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
Erin Brockovich
2000
The Vietnam War
2017
The Spoils Before Dying
2015
Prohibition
2011
Patch Adams
1998
Sphere
1998
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
The Comey Rule
2020
Explorer
1985
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
The Disappearance
2017
Hemingway
2021
The American Buffalo
2023
Spielberg
2017
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
2020
Femme Fatale
2002
Country Music
2019
Random Hearts
1999
Jagged Edge
1985
Great Migrations
2010
Southern Comfort
1981
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
2021
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006
Dangerous Waters
2012
Benjamin Franklin
2022
Founding Fathers
2000
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005
Kika
1993
Good Kill
2015
The Legend of Billie Jean
1985
Seduced by Madness
1996
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
1996
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
2005
Resurrecting the Champ
2007
Unforgettable
1996
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
2008
The Dust Bowl
2012
The Pacific Century
1992
Good Men
2024
The Color of War
2001
Deepwater
2005
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
2009
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
2023
La Californie !
2023
$5 a Day
2008
Fog City Mavericks
2007
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Buffalo Girls
1995
The History of Sex
1999
Rome: Power & Glory
1998
Kennedy
2023
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
The Mayo Clinic
2018
Shadow of Fear
2004
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
High Art
1991
Northfork
2003
Outrageous Fortune
1987
1 Mile To You
2017
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
2008
Against All Enemies
2023
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003
Bon Voyage
2003
The Etruscan Smile
2018
Guns Germs & Steel
2005
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011
A Little Trip to Heaven
2005
Crooked Hearts
1991
These Amazing Shadows
2011
The Gundown
2011
Bad Faith
2024
Top of the World
1997
Girl on the Edge
2015
The Phenomenon
2020
The Price of Fame
2015
Founding Brothers
2002
The Blue Yonder
1985
A Man in Love
1987
Indiscreet
1998
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
2022
Midwives
2001
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Purpose
2002
No Deposit
2015
Road Ends
1997
Endangered Species
1982
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
1998
This Is Not a Movie
2011
Moment of Contact
2022
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Cross Creek
1983
Heartbreakers
1984
A Time for Dancing
2002
All Roads Lead Home
2008
The Hebrew Hammer
2003
Phenomenon II
2003
Baja Oklahoma
1988
Red Letters
2000
The Reality of Truth
2016
Unconquered
1989
DiDi Hollywood
2010
Keeper of the City
1991
The Secrets of 007
1997
Die Laughing
1980
The Man Inside
1990
Suddenly Naked
2001
People vs. Jean Harris
1981
Here
2011
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2002
Strangers Kiss
1983
Two for Texas
1998
More Dogs Than Bones
2000
Heart of Midnight
1988
Slayground
1983
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990
Spirit of Golf
2023
Dalva
1996
Out of the Blue
2003
Jack the Dog
2001
Last Will
2011
Route 9
1998
Murder on Shadow Mountain
1999
Best Kept Secrets
1984
A Single Woman
2008
Terminal Justice
1996
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
1998
The Program
2024
Right to Play
2012
Execution of Justice
1999
The Great Role
2004
Stacking
1987
Eva & Leon
2015
Last Call
1999
Murder in My Mind
1997
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
2018
Isabel's Choice
1981
The Wednesday Woman
2000
Child's Cry
1986
Out
1982
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
2014
The Basket
2000
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
2025
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
2003
Adopt a Sailor
2008
Tell Me a Riddle
1980
Scorned and Swindled
1984
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
1997
As If They Were Angels
2018
A Seduction in Travis County
1991
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
2011
Breach of Contract
1982
The Hippie Temptation
1967
Hayden's Corner
—
The Tent Mender
2021
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
2009
Seeds Of Doubt
1998
Americana
2016
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
2012
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006
A Cloud Never Dies
2022
I am Fishead
2011
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
1983
Living a Lie
1991
What The Tourist Should See
2009
Sworn to Silence
1987
The Ghost Army
2013
The Last Stand
2022
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988
Written In Blood
2003
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
1999
Rise Above the Mark
2012
AKA Tommy Chong
2006
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019
Breach of Conduct
1994
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009
Valparaiso
2012
Illicit: The Dark Trade
2008
A Coup in Camelot
2015
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
2002
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
1998
Hippies
2007
With One Voice
2009
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
2003
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
2010
Strange Culture
2007
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
2016
The War Prayer
2005
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
2019
In the Light of Reverence
2001
Emperor of Hemp
1999
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
—
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
2009
San Francisco Diggers
1998
That Eye, the Sky
1995
The Peyote Road
1994
The Gospel of Judas
2006
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
2002
Green Fire
2011
Grizzly Diaries
2003
Search for the Submarine I-52
2000
Wandering...But Not Lost
2021
The Sacramento River of Life
2005
Climbing Redwood Giants
2009
Fields of Gold
2023
Bag It
2011
The Sunday Man
2007
Oil on Ice
2004
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
2001
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
2021
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
2010
The Atomic Tree
2019
Summer of Love
2018
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
2017
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
2025
Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business
2006
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
2021
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
1985
Commune
2005
Poison in the Rockies
1990
Soldiers Of Conscience
2007
Almost Thirteen
2020
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
2009
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
2019
Texas Gold
2008
Polanski y los ojos del mal
2002
San Francisco Stories
2021
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
1998
Angel Azul
2014
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
2004
The Co-op Wars
2021
Torturing Democracy
2009
Sunseed: The Journey
2020
Nepal Beyond
2021
A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education
2015
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
1985
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
2007
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
2013
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
—
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
2020
The UFO Experience
1982
I Know What I Saw
2009
Huxley on Huxley
2009
Vampire Forensics
2010
Avalanche: The White Death
1998
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
2010
The Tribe
2005
Oceans in Glass
2011
Missing in Tibet
1999
Saving Atlantis
2018
Alaska Far Away
2008
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
2014
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
—
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
2025
Lightworkers
—
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
2022
Finding Anastasia
2008
The Brain Fitness Program
2008
Black Mountain Blues
2025