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Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

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Born October 10, 1941, New York City, New York, USA

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

Appearances as themselves (47)
  • 2025O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder — Self
  • 2024Good Men — Self
  • La Californie ! — Self - Actor / Activist
  • San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2023Spirit of Golf — Self
  • 2022Jerry Brown: The Disrupter — Self
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2019Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre — Self
  • 2019Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2018Summer of Love — Himself
  • 2018The Mayo Clinic — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2017Spielberg — Self
  • 2017The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple — Himself - Narrator
  • The Vietnam War — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2016The Reality of Truth — Self
  • 2016Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging. — Himself
  • 2015Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy — Self
  • The Real History of Science Fiction — Himself
  • 2013Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal — Self
  • Dangerous Waters — Self
  • 2011Bag It — Self
  • On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America — Self
  • Prohibition — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2011These Amazing Shadows — Self
  • 2009Climbing Redwood Giants — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2009For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League — Himself - Narrator
  • 2009Huxley on Huxley — Self
  • 2008Illicit: The Dark Trade — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2007Fog City Mavericks — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2007Hippies — Self
  • 2007Soldiers Of Conscience — Self
  • 2007Strange Culture — Self
  • 2006AKA Tommy Chong — Himself
  • 2006Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business — Self
  • 2005Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2002E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special — Self
  • 2002Polanski y los ojos del mal — Himself
  • 1999National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway — Himself - Narrator
  • The History of Sex — Himself - Narrator
  • 1998National Geographic's Storm of the Century — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777 — Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 1996The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' — Self
  • The West — Self - Narrator
  • National Geographic Explorer — Self - Narrator, Himself - Narrator (voice)
  • The Oscars — Self
  • Lightworkers — Self-Interviewee
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