Peter Coyote
Acting • Born 1941-10-10
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.
Filmography
299 credits
Erin Brockovich
Movie • 2000
Kurt Potter
Unforgettable
Movie • 1996
Don Bresler
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Movie • 1982
Keys
Sphere
Movie • 1998
Captain Harold C. Barnes
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
Movie • 2006
President Adair T. Manning
A Walk to Remember
Movie • 2002
Reverend Sullivan
Patch Adams
Movie • 1998
Bill Davis
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Movie • 2001
Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
Movie • 2014
Narrator
$5 a Day
Movie • 2008
Burt Kruger
Bitter Moon
Movie • 1992
Oscar
Outrageous Fortune
Movie • 1987
Michael Sanders
Kika
Movie • 1993
Nicholas Pierce
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Movie • 1982
Porter Reese
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
Movie • 2005
Uncle Charles
Northfork
Movie • 2003
Eddie
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
Movie • 2002
Self
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
Movie • 1996
Self
Jagged Edge
Movie • 1985
Thomas Krasny
Southern Comfort
Movie • 1981
Poole
Femme Fatale
Movie • 2002
Watts
Random Hearts
Movie • 1999
Cullen Chandler
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
Movie • 2021
Narrator (voice)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Breach of Contract
Movie • 1982
Deepwater
Movie • 2005
Herman Finch
Torturing Democracy
Movie • 2009
Narrator
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Movie • 2009
Narrstor (voice)
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
Movie • 2008
President Sterling
Nepal Beyond
Movie • 2021
Narrator
More Dogs Than Bones
Movie • 2000
Detective Darren Cody
A Little Trip to Heaven
Movie • 2005
Frank
DiDi Hollywood
Movie • 2010
Michael McLean
All Roads Lead Home
Movie • 2008
Hock
The Legend of Billie Jean
Movie • 1985
Ringwald
AKA Tommy Chong
Movie • 2006
Himself
Top of the World
Movie • 1997
Doc 'The Butcher'
A Time for Dancing
Movie • 2002
Wyn Michaels
Endangered Species
Movie • 1982
Steele
Heart of Midnight
Movie • 1988
Sharpe/Larry
The Gundown
Movie • 2011
Thomas Morgan
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
Movie • 2008
Elliot Arthur
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Movie • 2007
Narrator
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
Movie • 2019
Self - Narrator (voice)
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
Movie • 2011
Narrator (voice)
These Amazing Shadows
Movie • 2011
Self
Shadow of Fear
Movie • 2004
Congressman Henderson
Emperor of Hemp
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Against All Enemies
Movie • 2023
Narrator
Adopt a Sailor
Movie • 2008
Richard
Suddenly Naked
Movie • 2001
Lionel Heathcote
A Man in Love
Movie • 1987
Steve Elliott
This Is Not a Movie
Movie • 2011
The Basket
Movie • 2000
Martin Conlon
Purpose
Movie • 2002
Bernard Elias
The Gospel of Judas
Movie • 2006
The Gospel of Judas
Movie • 2006
Narrator
Last Call
Movie • 1999
Xuave
High Art
Movie • 1991
Peter Mandrake
Red Letters
Movie • 2000
Dennis Burke
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
The Blue Yonder
Movie • 1985
Max Knickerbocker
Heartbreakers
Movie • 1984
Blue
Out
Movie • 1982
Rex
Crooked Hearts
Movie • 1991
Edward Warren
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
Movie • 2010
Narration
The Great Role
Movie • 2004
Rudolph Grichenberg
Slayground
Movie • 1983
Stone
Here
Movie • 2011
Storyteller
I am Fishead
Movie • 2011
narrator
Buffalo Girls
Movie • 1995
Buffalo Bill Cody
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
Movie • 2021
Narrator
Texas Gold
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Strange Culture
Movie • 2007
Self
Two for Texas
Movie • 1998
Jim Bowie
Seeds Of Doubt
Movie • 1998
Midwives
Movie • 2001
Stephen Hastings
A Cloud Never Dies
Movie • 2022
Narrator (voice)
Last Will
Movie • 2011
Judge Garner
Road Ends
Movie • 1997
Gene Gere
Sunseed: The Journey
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
Cross Creek
Movie • 1983
Norton Baskin
Angel Azul
Movie • 2014
Narrator
Echoes in the Darkness
Movie • 1987
William Bradfield Jr.
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Movie • 2013
Self
Fields of Gold
Movie • 2023
Narrator
Written In Blood
Movie • 2003
John Traveller
Indiscreet
Movie • 1998
Detective Roos
The Ghost Army
Movie • 2013
Narrator (Voice)
Child's Cry
Movie • 1986
Matt Townsend
Best Kept Secrets
Movie • 1984
Frank Mitchell
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Movie • 2022
Self
Tell Me a Riddle
Movie • 1980
Young David
Wandering...But Not Lost
Movie • 2021
Narrator
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie • 1995
Narrator
Terminal Justice
Movie • 1996
Deacon Vivyan
Soldiers Of Conscience
Movie • 2007
Self
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
Movie • 1997
Narrator
Route 9
Movie • 1998
Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
The Price of Fame
Movie • 2015
Crooker
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
Movie
People vs. Jean Harris
Movie • 1981
George Bolen
Almost Thirteen
Movie • 2020
Narrator
That Eye, the Sky
Movie • 1995
Henry Warburton
Out of the Blue
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Movie • 1985
Narrator (voice)
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
Movie • 2019
narrator
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
Movie • 2009
Self - Narrator (voice)
Rise Above the Mark
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Moment of Contact
Movie • 2022
Narrator (voice)
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
Movie • 2010
Narrator
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
Movie • 2014
Burt Lowell
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Strangers Kiss
Movie • 1983
Stanley, the Director
Right to Play
Movie • 2012
Narrator
San Francisco Diggers
Movie • 1998
Hippies
Movie • 2007
Self
The Atomic Tree
Movie • 2019
Narrator
The Secrets of 007
Movie • 1997
Narrator (voice)
Murder in My Mind
Movie • 1997
Arthur Lefcourt
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
Movie • 2022
Narrator
Americana
Movie • 2016
Ben
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
Movie • 1998
Self - Narrator (voice)
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
Movie • 1988
Narrator
Die Laughing
Movie • 1980
Davis
Illicit: The Dark Trade
Movie • 2008
Self - Narrator (voice)
No Deposit
Movie • 2015
Police Chief Williams
Oil on Ice
Movie • 2004
Narrator
The Last Stand
Movie • 2022
Narrator (voice)
Eva & Leon
Movie • 2015
Le Père
Breach of Conduct
Movie • 1994
Col. Andrew Case
Green Fire
Movie • 2011
Aldo Leopold (voice)
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Movie • 1980
Courtney Taylor
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
Movie • 2013
Narrator
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
Movie • 1985
Narrator
Good Kill
Movie • 2015
Langley
Bad Faith
Movie • 2024
Narrator (voice)
Unconquered
Movie • 1989
Richmond Flowers Sr.
Sworn to Silence
Movie • 1987
Sam Fischetti
Avalanche: The White Death
Movie • 1998
Narrator
The Co-op Wars
Movie • 2021
Narrator (voice)
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
Movie • 1999
Himself - Narrator
The Sunday Man
Movie • 2007
The Voice
Vampire Forensics
Movie • 2010
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
Movie • 2004
The Man Inside
Movie • 1990
Henry Tobel
Girl on the Edge
Movie • 2015
Hank Taylor
In the Light of Reverence
Movie • 2001
Narrator (voice)
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
Movie • 1983
Narrator (voice)
Poison in the Rockies
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
Execution of Justice
Movie • 1999
Harvey Milk
Missing in Tibet
Movie • 1999
Narrator
1 Mile To You
Movie • 2017
Principal Umber
Baja Oklahoma
Movie • 1988
Slick Henderson
Grizzly Diaries
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
Huxley on Huxley
Movie • 2009
Self
Bon Voyage
Movie • 2003
Alex Winckler
The Program
Movie • 2024
Narrator (voice)
Murder on Shadow Mountain
Movie • 1999
Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
Movie • 2009
Narrator
Phenomenon II
Movie • 2003
John Ringold
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
Movie • 2016
Himself
Polanski y los ojos del mal
Movie • 2002
Himself
The Brain Fitness Program
Movie • 2008
Alaska Far Away
Movie • 2008
Narrator
The Wednesday Woman
Movie • 2000
Don Wigulow
The Tribe
Movie • 2005
Voice
Spielberg
Movie • 2017
Self
The Hebrew Hammer
Movie • 2003
JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
Movie • 2005
Uncle Charles
Stacking
Movie • 1987
The Photographer
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
The Etruscan Smile
Movie • 2018
Professor
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Movie • 2015
Self
The UFO Experience
Movie • 1982
The Hippie Temptation
Movie • 1967
Digger
A Single Woman
Movie • 2008
Maury Maverick
Keeper of the City
Movie • 1991
Frank Nordhall
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
Movie • 2017
Himself - Narrator
Search for the Submarine I-52
Movie • 2000
Narrator
The Mayo Clinic
Movie • 2018
Self - Narrator (voice)
Scorned and Swindled
Movie • 1984
Anthony Ristelli
Summer of Love
Movie • 2018
Himself
Dalva
Movie • 1996
Michael
Isabel's Choice
Movie • 1981
Wynn Thomas
Resurrecting the Champ
Movie • 2007
Ike Epstein
The War Prayer
Movie • 2005
Narrator
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
Movie • 2018
Narrator
Moonlight and Valentino
Movie • 1995
Paul
The Reality of Truth
Movie • 2016
Self
I Know What I Saw
Movie • 2009
Narrator (voice)
With One Voice
Movie • 2009
Narrator
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Movie • 2012
Maxwell Perkins
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
Movie • 2003
Narrator
Earth and the American Dream
Movie • 1992
Reader (voice)
Bag It
Movie • 2011
Self
The Sacramento River of Life
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
Movie • 1998
Narrator, English version (voice)
Climbing Redwood Giants
Movie • 2009
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Phenomenon
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
Commune
Movie • 2005
self, Black Bear resident
Oceans in Glass
Movie • 2011
Narrator
What The Tourist Should See
Movie • 2009
Narrator (voice)
Living a Lie
Movie • 1991
Matt
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Movie • 2006
Narrator (voice)
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
Movie • 2021
Sam Donovan
Valparaiso
Movie • 2012
Edward G. Drexler
As If They Were Angels
Movie • 2018
Narrator
Fog City Mavericks
Movie • 2007
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Seduction in Travis County
Movie • 1991
Frank Maguire
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
Movie • 2019
Self
A Coup in Camelot
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Stories
Movie • 2021
Narrator/SInger
Good Men
Movie • 2024
Self
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
Movie
Narrator
Jack the Dog
Movie • 2001
Alfred
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
Movie • 1998
Narrator
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
Movie • 2010
Narrator
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
Movie • 2025
Self
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
Movie • 2009
Narrator
The Peyote Road
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
Movie • 1998
Narrator
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
Movie • 2003
Narrator
Hayden's Corner
Movie
Narrator (voice)
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
Movie • 2017
Spirit of Golf
Movie • 2023
Self
A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Finding Anastasia
Movie • 2008
Narrator
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
Saving Atlantis
Movie • 2018
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
Movie • 2002
Narrator
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
Movie • 2025
Narrator (voice)
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
Movie • 2025
Narrator
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
Movie
Narrator
DR. DOLITTLE: TAIL TO THE CHIEF
Movie • 2008
スターリング大統領
Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business
Movie • 2006
Self
Deadwood
TV • 2004
General Crook
Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006
Mark August
The Division
TV • 2001
Ross
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "Shadow Play")
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
TV • 2005
Mike LaSalle
The Inside
TV • 2005
Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
NCIS
TV • 2003
Ned Quinn
Explorer
TV • 1985
Hemingway
TV • 2021
Narrator (voice)
The History of Sex
TV • 1999
Himself - Narrator
The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Alex Nolan
Rome: Power & Glory
TV • 1998
Narrator
Nature
TV • 1982
Narrator (voice)
Independent Lens
TV • 1999
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Seduced by Madness
TV • 1996
Ruben Borchardt
The West
TV • 1996
Self - Narrator
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
TV • 2009
Narrator
The U.S. and the Holocaust
TV • 2022
Self - Narrator
Intelligence
TV • 2014
Leland Strand
Perception
TV • 2012
James Alan Pierce
The Tent Mender
TV • 2021
as Narrator
FlashForward
TV • 2009
Dave Segovia
La Californie !
TV • 2023
Self - Actor / Activist
Benjamin Franklin
TV • 2022
Narrator (voice)
Law & Order: LA
TV • 2010
Jerry Hardin
The 4400
TV • 2004
Dennis Ryland
The Disappearance
TV • 2017
Henry Sullivan
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
TV • 2009
Himself - Narrator
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Peter Coyote (voice)
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
TV • 2014
Narrator (voice)
The Vietnam War
TV • 2017
Narrator (voice)
The Spoils Before Dying
TV • 2015
Dizzy the Cat
The Dust Bowl
TV • 2012
Peter Coyote
Great Migrations
TV • 2010
Prohibition
TV • 2011
Self - Narrator (voice)
Kennedy
TV • 2023
Narrator (voice)
Blue Bloods
TV • 2010
Senator Ted McCreary
Explorer
TV • 1985
Self - Narrator
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
TV • 2020
Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
Guns Germs & Steel
TV • 2005
Narrator (voice)
The American Buffalo
TV • 2023
Narrator (voice)
Dangerous Waters
TV • 2012
Self
Founding Fathers
TV • 2000
John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Fallen Angels
TV • 1993
Herman Charn
Explorer
TV • 1985
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Color of War
TV • 2001
Narrator
Commander in Chief
TV • 2005
Warren Keaton
Country Music
TV • 2019
Narrator
Founding Brothers
TV • 2002
Echoes in the Darkness
TV • 1987
William Bradfield Jr.
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
TV • 1980
Courtney Taylor
The Real History of Science Fiction
TV • 2014
Himself
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Lionel Shill
The Comey Rule
TV • 2020
Robert Mueller
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
TV • 1996
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Pacific Century
TV • 1992
Narrator (voice)
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
TV • 2011
Self
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
TV • 2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
The American Revolution
TV • 2025
Narrator (voice)
Cybill
TV • 1995
Roger