Peter Coyote

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-10-10 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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 interviewe...

Acting

2000

Erin Brockovich

as Kurt Potter

1996

Unforgettable

as Don Bresler

1998

Sphere

as Captain Harold C. Barnes

2006

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

as President Adair T. Manning

2002

A Walk to Remember

as Reverend Sullivan

1998

Patch Adams

as Bill Davis

2008

$5 a Day

as Burt Kruger

1992

Bitter Moon

as Oscar

1987

Outrageous Fortune

as Michael Sanders

1993

Kika

as Nicholas Pierce

2003

Northfork

as Eddie

1985

Jagged Edge

as Thomas Krasny

1981

2002

Femme Fatale

as Watts

1999

Random Hearts

as Cullen Chandler

2005

Deepwater

as Herman Finch

2009

2009

2008

Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief

as President Sterling

2021

Nepal Beyond

as Narrator

2000

More Dogs Than Bones

as Detective Darren Cody

2010

DiDi Hollywood

as Michael McLean

1985

The Legend of Billie Jean

as Lt. Larry Ringwald

2006

AKA Tommy Chong

as Himself

1997

Top of the World

as Doc 'The Butcher'

2002

A Time for Dancing

as Wyn Michaels

1982

1988

Heart of Midnight

as Sharpe/Larry

2011

The Gundown

as Thomas Morgan

2019

Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2004

Shadow of Fear

as Congressman Henderson

1999

Emperor of Hemp

as Narrator

2023

2008

Adopt a Sailor

as Richard

2001

Suddenly Naked

as Lionel Heathcote

1987

A Man in Love

as Steve Elliott

2000

The Basket

as Martin Conlon

2002

Purpose

as Bernard Elias

2006

1999

Last Call

as Xuave

1991

High Art

as Peter Mandrake

2000

Red Letters

as Dennis Burke

2002

Empty Oceans, Empty Nets

as Narrator (voice)

1985

The Blue Yonder

as Max Knickerbocker

1984

1982

Out

as Rex

1991

Crooked Hearts

as Edward Warren

2004

The Great Role

as Rudolph Grichenberg

1983

Slayground

as Stone

2011

Here

as Storyteller

2011

I am Fishead

as narrator

1995

Buffalo Girls

as Buffalo Bill Cody

2008

Texas Gold

as Narrator

2007

1998

Two for Texas

as Jim Bowie

2001

Midwives

as Stephen Hastings

2022

A Cloud Never Dies

as Narrator (voice)

2011

Last Will

as Judge Garner

1997

Road Ends

as Gene Gere

2020

Sunseed: The Journey

as Narrator (voice)

1983

Cross Creek

as Norton Baskin

2014

Angel Azul

as Narrator

1987

Echoes in the Darkness

as William Bradfield Jr.

2023

Fields of Gold

as Narrator

2003

Written In Blood

as John Traveller

1998

Indiscreet

as Detective Roos

2013

The Ghost Army

as Narrator (Voice)

1986

Child's Cry

as Matt Townsend

1984

Best Kept Secrets

as Frank Mitchell

1980

Tell Me a Riddle

as Young David

1996

Terminal Justice

as Deacon Vivyan

1998

Route 9

as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan

2015

1981

People vs. Jean Harris

as George Bolen

2020

Almost Thirteen

as Narrator

1995

That Eye, the Sky

as Henry Warburton

2003

Out of the Blue

as Narrator (voice)

2012

2022

Moment of Contact

as Narrator (voice)

2014

1983

Strangers Kiss

as Stanley, the Director

2012

Right to Play

as Narrator

2007

Hippies

as Self

2019

The Atomic Tree

as Narrator

1997

The Secrets of 007

as Narrator (voice)

1997

Murder in My Mind

as Arthur Lefcourt

2016

Americana

as Ben

1998

1980

Die Laughing

as Davis

2008

Illicit: The Dark Trade

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2015

No Deposit

as Police Chief Williams

2004

Oil on Ice

as Narrator

2022

The Last Stand

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Eva & Leon

as Le Père

1994

Breach of Conduct

as Col. Andrew Case

2011

Green Fire

as Aldo Leopold (voice)

2015

Good Kill

as Langley

2024

Bad Faith

as Narrator (voice)

1989

Unconquered

as Richmond Flowers Sr.

1987

Sworn to Silence

as Sam Fischetti

2021

The Co-op Wars

as Narrator (voice)

2007

The Sunday Man

as The Voice

1990

The Man Inside

as Henry Tobel

2015

Girl on the Edge

as Hank Taylor

1990

Poison in the Rockies

as Narrator (voice)

2001

In the Light of Reverence

as Narrator (voice)

1999

Execution of Justice

as Harvey Milk

1999

Missing in Tibet

as Narrator

2017

1 Mile To You

as Principal Umber

1988

Baja Oklahoma

as Slick Henderson

2003

Grizzly Diaries

as Narrator (voice)

2009

2003

Bon Voyage

as Alex Winckler

2024

The Program

as Narrator (voice)

1999

Murder on Shadow Mountain

as Dennis 'Denny' Traynor

2003

Phenomenon II

as John Ringold

2008

Alaska Far Away

as Narrator

2000

The Wednesday Woman

as Don Wigulow

2005

The Tribe

as Voice

2017

Spielberg

as Self

2003

The Hebrew Hammer

as JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal

1987

Stacking

as The Photographer

2018

The Etruscan Smile

as Professor

2008

A Single Woman

as Maury Maverick

1991

Keeper of the City

as Frank Nordhall

2018

The Mayo Clinic

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1984

Scorned and Swindled

as Anthony Ristelli

2018

Summer of Love

as Himself

1996

Dalva

as Michael

1981

Isabel's Choice

as Wynn Thomas

2007

2005

The War Prayer

as Narrator

2009

I Know What I Saw

as Narrator (voice)

2009

With One Voice

as Narrator

2012

Hemingway & Gellhorn

as Maxwell Perkins

1992

2011

Bag It

as Self

1998

Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity

as Narrator, English version (voice)

2009

Climbing Redwood Giants

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2020

The Phenomenon

as Narrator (voice)

2005

Commune

as self, Black Bear resident

2011

Oceans in Glass

as Narrator

2009

What The Tourist Should See

as Narrator (voice)

1991

1995

American Cinema

as Narrator

2006

2012

Valparaiso

as Edward G. Drexler

2018

2007

Fog City Mavericks

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1991

2015

A Coup in Camelot

as Narrator (voice)

-

San Francisco Stories

as Narrator/SInger

2024

Good Men

as Self

2001

Jack the Dog

as Alfred

1994

The Peyote Road

as Narrator

-

Hayden's Corner

as Narrator (voice)

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