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