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Peter Coyote
Known for: ActingPeter 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 98
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
as Keys 
Sphere
as Captain Harold C. Barnes 
Patch Adams
as Bill Davis 
Erin Brockovich
as Kurt Potter 
Bitter Moon
as Oscar 
A Walk to Remember
as Reverend Sullivan 
Kennedy
as Narrator (voice) 
Outrageous Fortune
as Michael Sanders 
Kika
as Nicholas Pierce 
Country Music
as Narrator 
The American Revolution
as Narrator (voice) 
The Vietnam War
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Random Hearts
as Cullen Chandler 
The Disappearance
as Henry Sullivan 
The Spoils Before Dying
as Dizzy the Cat 
Hemingway
as Narrator (voice) 
Prohibition
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
as Narrator 
Femme Fatale
as Watts 
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
The Comey Rule
as Robert Mueller 
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as Narrator (voice) 
The West
as Self - Narrator 
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Founding Fathers
as John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice) 
Jagged Edge
as Thomas Krasny 
The American Buffalo
as Narrator (voice) 
Good Kill
as Langley 
Hemingway & Gellhorn
as Maxwell Perkins 
Southern Comfort
as Poole 
Resurrecting the Champ
as Ike Epstein 
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
as President Adair T. Manning 
The Legend of Billie Jean
as Ringwald 
DiDi Hollywood
as Michael McLean 
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
as Uncle Charles 
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
as President Sterling 
The Dust Bowl
as Peter Coyote 
Benjamin Franklin
as Narrator (voice) 
Route 9
as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan 
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
as Sam Donovan 
Echoes in the Darkness
as William Bradfield Jr. 
1 Mile To You
as Principal Umber 
Northfork
as Eddie 
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
as Uncle Charles 
Here
as Storyteller 
Shadow of Fear
as Congressman Henderson 
A Time for Dancing
as Wyn Michaels 
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
as Porter Reese 
Moonlight and Valentino
as Paul 
Unforgettable
as Don Bresler 
The Etruscan Smile
as Professor 
All Roads Lead Home
as Hock 
The Hebrew Hammer
as JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal 
A Little Trip to Heaven
as Frank 
Cross Creek
as Norton Baskin 
Bon Voyage
as Alex Winckler 
Tell Me a Riddle
as Young David 
Crooked Hearts
as Edward Warren 
The Mayo Clinic
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Endangered Species
as Steele 
High Art
as Peter Mandrake 
Deepwater
as Herman Finch 
The Reality of Truth
as Self 
Top of the World
as Doc 'The Butcher' 
Slayground
as Stone 
Die Laughing
as Davis 
Hippies
as Self 
$5 a Day
as Burt Kruger 
Out of the Blue
as Narrator (voice) 
Girl on the Edge
as Hank Taylor 
Moment of Contact
as Narrator (voice) 
Road Ends
as Gene Gere 
The Phenomenon
as Narrator (voice) 
AKA Tommy Chong
as Himself 
In the Light of Reverence
as Narrator (voice) 
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
as Narrator (voice) 
More Dogs Than Bones
as Detective Darren Cody 
Green Fire
as Aldo Leopold (voice) 
The Gospel of Judas
as / Narrator 
Heart of Midnight
as Sharpe/Larry 
Bad Faith
as Narrator (voice) 
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
as narrator 
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
as Self 
The Program
as Narrator (voice) 
The Gundown
as Thomas Morgan 
Wandering...But Not Lost
as Narrator 
Americana
as Ben 
Two for Texas
as Jim Bowie 
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
as Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice) 
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
as Narrator (voice) 
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
as Narrator 
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
as Narrator (voice)