Peter Coyote
Acting
Born: October 10, 1941 (age 85) · New York City, New York, USA
Highest Rated
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
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
The Simpsons
1989
A Walk to Remember
2002
Erin Brockovich
2000
Patch Adams
1998
NCIS
2003
Sphere
1998
Blue Bloods
2010
Deadwood
2004
Bitter Moon
1992
The 4400
2004
Femme Fatale
2002
Photos (3)
Movies (187)
A Walk to Remember
Reverend Sullivan
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Keys
Sphere
Captain Harold C. Barnes
Patch Adams
Bill Davis
Erin Brockovich
Kurt Potter
Random Hearts
Cullen Chandler
Bitter Moon
Oscar
Jagged Edge
Thomas Krasny
Outrageous Fortune
Michael Sanders
Kika
Nicholas Pierce
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
President Sterling
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Maxwell Perkins
The Legend of Billie Jean
Ringwald
Southern Comfort
Poole
The Hebrew Hammer
JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
Unforgettable
Don Bresler
Femme Fatale
Watts
The Price of Fame
Crooker
Resurrecting the Champ
Ike Epstein
Good Kill
Langley
A Man in Love
Steve Elliott
A Little Trip to Heaven
Frank
DiDi Hollywood
Michael McLean
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
Sam Donovan
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
President Adair T. Manning
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
Uncle Charles
All Roads Lead Home
Hock
Route 9
Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
1 Mile To You
Principal Umber
Dalva
Michael
Northfork
Eddie
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
Uncle Charles
Here
Storyteller
Heart of Midnight
Sharpe/Larry
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Courtney Taylor
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Porter Reese
Endangered Species
Steele
Moonlight and Valentino
Paul
Tell Me a Riddle
Young David
This Is Not a Movie
2011
A Time for Dancing
Wyn Michaels
Sworn to Silence
Sam Fischetti
Shadow of Fear
Congressman Henderson
More Dogs Than Bones
Detective Darren Cody
Scorned and Swindled
Anthony Ristelli
The Etruscan Smile
Professor
Cross Creek
Norton Baskin
Americana
Ben
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
Narrator
Breach of Conduct
Col. Andrew Case
Murder in My Mind
Arthur Lefcourt
Angel Azul
Narrator
Bon Voyage
Alex Winckler
Crooked Hearts
Edward Warren
Die Laughing
Davis
The Ghost Army
Narrator (Voice)
Moment of Contact
Narrator (voice)
Keeper of the City
Frank Nordhall
Murder on Shadow Mountain
Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
Narrator, English version (voice)
Echoes in the Darkness
William Bradfield Jr.
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Narrator
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
Narrator (voice)
No Deposit
Police Chief Williams
Nepal Beyond
Narrator
Girl on the Edge
Hank Taylor
Strangers Kiss
Stanley, the Director
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
Narrator
Buffalo Girls
Buffalo Bill Cody
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
Narration
Red Letters
Dennis Burke
The Blue Yonder
Max Knickerbocker
Jack the Dog
Alfred
Heartbreakers
Blue
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
Narrator
Deepwater
Herman Finch
Top of the World
Doc 'The Butcher'
Out of the Blue
Narrator (voice)
The Phenomenon
Narrator (voice)
Slayground
Stone
A Cloud Never Dies
Narrator (voice)
Suddenly Naked
Lionel Heathcote
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
Narrator (voice)
A Single Woman
Maury Maverick
Antonio's Road
Breaking News Reporter (voice)
Terminal Justice
Deacon Vivyan
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
Narrstor (voice)
Best Kept Secrets
Frank Mitchell
$5 a Day
Burt Kruger
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Narrator
The Secrets of 007
Narrator (voice)
I Know What I Saw
Narrator (voice)
Midwives
Stephen Hastings
The Brain Fitness Program
2008
The Tribe
Voice
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
Burt Lowell
Road Ends
Gene Gere
Fields of Gold
Narrator
Unconquered
Richmond Flowers Sr.
Eva & Leon
Le Père
People vs. Jean Harris
George Bolen
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
Narrator
The Atomic Tree
Narrator
Grizzly Diaries
Narrator (voice)
What The Tourist Should See
Narrator (voice)
High Art
Peter Mandrake
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
Narrator
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Narrator (voice)
The Hippie Temptation
Digger
Torturing Democracy
Narrator
Bad Faith
Narrator (voice)
Green Fire
Aldo Leopold (voice)
A Seduction in Travis County
Frank Maguire
As If They Were Angels
Narrator
Last Call
Xuave
Breach of Contract
1982
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
Narrator
Phenomenon II
John Ringold
In the Light of Reverence
Narrator (voice)
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
Narrator (voice)
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
Narrator
Finding Anastasia
Narrator
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
Narrator
Out
Rex
Last Will
Judge Garner
The Program
Narrator (voice)
That Eye, the Sky
Henry Warburton
The Peyote Road
Narrator
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
narrator
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
Elliot Arthur
The Wednesday Woman
Don Wigulow
Emperor of Hemp
Narrator
The Sunday Man
The Voice
Alaska Far Away
Narrator
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
Narrator (voice)
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
Narrator
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Narrator (voice)
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
Narrator
The Gospel of Judas
2006
The Gospel of Judas
Narrator
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
Narrator (voice)
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
Narrator
The Gundown
Thomas Morgan
Baja Oklahoma
Slick Henderson
Oil on Ice
Narrator
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
Narrator
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Narrator (voice)
Wandering...But Not Lost
Narrator
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
Narrator
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
Narrator
Two for Texas
Jim Bowie
The Great Role
Rudolph Grichenberg
Valparaiso
Edward G. Drexler
With One Voice
Narrator
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
Narrator (voice)
Seeds of Doubt
1998
Against All Enemies
Narrator
The Basket
Martin Conlon
The Co-op Wars
Narrator (voice)
Living a Lie
Matt
Adopt a Sailor
Richard
Written In Blood
John Traveller
The Sacramento River of Life
Narrator
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
Avalanche: The White Death
Narrator
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
Indiscreet
Detective Roos
Almost Thirteen
Narrator
Child's Cry
Matt Townsend
Isabel's Choice
Wynn Thomas
Saving Atlantis
2018
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
Narrator
The Man Inside
Henry Tobel
Purpose
Bernard Elias
Reconstructing T-Rex
Narrator
Stacking
The Photographer
Poison in the Rockies
Narrator (voice)
A Coup in Camelot
Narrator (voice)
Search for the Submarine I-52
Narrator
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
Narrator (voice)
Oceans in Glass
Narrator
I am Fishead
narrator
Execution of Justice
Harvey Milk
San Francisco Stories
Narrator/SInger
The Last Stand
Narrator (voice)
Black Mountain Blues
2025
TV Shows (46)
The Simpsons
Peter Coyote (voice) · 1 eps
NCIS
Ned Quinn · 1 eps
Blue Bloods
Senator Ted McCreary · 1 eps
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Lionel Shill · 1 eps
American Experience
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Brothers and Sisters
Mark August · 4 eps
Nature
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
American Playhouse
Young David · 1 eps
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Shadow Play") · 1 eps
The Division
Ross · 2 eps
The 4400
Dennis Ryland · 13 eps
Perception
James Alan Pierce · 4 eps
Independent Lens
542 eps
Deadwood
General George Crook · 1 eps
The Hitchhiker
Alex Nolan · 1 eps
Cybill
Roger · 1 eps
FlashForward
Dave Segovia · 2 eps
Law & Order: LA
Jerry Hardin · 8 eps
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Mike LaSalle · 1 eps
Fallen Angels
Herman Charn · 1 eps
Commander in Chief
Warren Keaton · 7 eps
Country Music
Narrator · 8 eps
Intelligence
Leland Strand · 3 eps
The American Revolution
Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
National Geographic Explorer
1 eps
Kennedy
Narrator (voice) · 8 eps
The Inside
Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster · 13 eps
The Disappearance
Henry Sullivan · 6 eps
Hemingway
Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
The Comey Rule
Robert Mueller · 2 eps
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Narrator · 6 eps
The Spoils Before Dying
Dizzy the Cat · 6 eps
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Narrator (voice) · 7 eps
Echoes in the Darkness
William Bradfield Jr. · 2 eps
Benjamin Franklin
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Founding Fathers
John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice) · 4 eps
Great Migrations
7 eps
The American Buffalo
Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Courtney Taylor · 2 eps
Rome: Power & Glory
Narrator · 8 eps
Seduced by Madness
Ruben Borchardt · 2 eps
The Color of War
Narrator · 17 eps
Founding Brothers
2 eps
The Dust Bowl
Peter Coyote · 2 eps
Guns Germs & Steel
Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
The Tent Mender
as Narrator · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (46)
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
The Real History of Science Fiction
Himself · 1 eps
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Self - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
National Geographic Explorer
Self - Narrator · 1 eps
National Geographic Explorer
Himself - Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
The Vietnam War
Self - Narrator (voice) · 10 eps
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member · 1 eps
Prohibition
Self - Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Self - Narrator (voice)
The West
Self - Narrator · 9 eps
Spielberg
Self
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
Self - Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
Self - Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
La Californie !
Self - Actor / Activist · 3 eps
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
Himself - Narrator · 5 eps
The History of Sex
Himself - Narrator · 5 eps
The Reality of Truth
Self
Dangerous Waters
Self · 10 eps
Fog City Mavericks
Self - Narrator (voice)
These Amazing Shadows
Self
AKA Tommy Chong
Himself
The Mayo Clinic
Self - Narrator (voice)
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
Self · 1 eps
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
Self
Good Men
Self
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
Self - Narrator (voice) · 5 eps
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
Self
Hippies
Self
Bag It
Self
Lightworkers
Self-Interviewee
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
Self
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
Climbing Redwood Giants
Self - Narrator (voice)
Illicit: The Dark Trade
Self - Narrator (voice)
Commune
self, Black Bear resident
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
Himself
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
Himself - Narrator
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
Self
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
Himself - Narrator
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
Self
Strange Culture
Self
Summer of Love
Himself
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Self
Soldiers Of Conscience
Self
Spirit of Golf
Self
