Peter Coyote
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.
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Films (243)
Antonio's Road
2026 · Breaking News Reporter (voice)
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
2026 · Narrator
Lightworkers
2026 · Self-Interviewee
Black Mountain Blues
2025
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
2025 · Narrator
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
2025 · Narrator (voice)
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
2025 · Self
The Program
2024 · Narrator (voice)
Good Men
2024 · Self
Bad Faith
2024 · Narrator (voice)
Fields of Gold
2023 · Narrator
Spirit of Golf
2023 · Self
Against All Enemies
2023 · Narrator
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
2022 · Self
Moment of Contact
2022 · Narrator (voice)
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
2022 · Narrator
The Last Stand
2022 · Narrator (voice)
A Cloud Never Dies
2022 · Narrator (voice)
The Co-op Wars
2021 · Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Stories
2021 · Narrator/SInger
La Fille qui croyait aux miracles
2021 · Sam Donovan
Sur le chemin… l’art de lâcher prise sans abandonner
2021 · Narrator
Nepal Beyond
2021 · Narrator
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
2021 · Narrator (voice)
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
2021 · Narrator
The Phenomenon
2020 · Narrator (voice)
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Sunseed: The Journey
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Almost Thirteen
2020 · Narrator
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019 · Self
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
2019 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
2019 · narrator
The Atomic Tree
2019 · Narrator
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
2018 · Narrator
As If They Were Angels
2018 · Narrator
The Mayo Clinic
2018 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Summer of Love
2018 · Himself
La sonrisa etrusca
2018 · Professor
Saving Atlantis
2018
Spielberg
2017 · Self
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
2017 · Himself - Narrator
Corazón de un corredor
2017 · Principal Umber
Paris peut attendre
2016 · Thanks
The Reality of Truth
2016 · Self
Americana
2016 · Ben
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
2016 · Himself
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015 · Self
A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education
2015 · Narrator
Eva & Leon
2015 · Le Père
No Deposit
2015 · Police Chief Williams
A Coup in Camelot
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Good Kill
2015 · Langley
Girl on the Edge
2015 · Hank Taylor
La Rançon de la gloire
2015 · Crooker
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
2014 · Burt Lowell
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
2014 · Narrator
Angel Azul
2014 · Narrator
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
2013 · Narrator
The Ghost Army
2013 · Narrator (Voice)
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013 · Self
Rise Above the Mark
2012 · Narrator
Hemingway et Gellhorn
2012 · Maxwell Perkins
Right to Play
2012 · Narrator
Valparaiso
2012 · Edward G. Drexler
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
2012 · Narrator
The gundown
2011 · Thomas Morgan
I am Fishead
2011 · narrator
Bag It
2011 · Self
Oceans in Glass
2011 · Narrator
Last Will
2011 · Judge Garner
Green Fire
2011 · Aldo Leopold (voice)
This Is Not a Movie
2011
These Amazing Shadows
2011 · Self
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Here
2011 · Storyteller
Di Di Hollywood
2010 · Michael McLean
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
2010 · Narrator
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
2010 · Narration
Reconstructing T-Rex
2010 · Narrator
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
2010 · Narrator
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009 · Narrstor (voice)
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
2009 · Narrator
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
2009 · Self - Narrator (voice)
I Know What I Saw
2009 · Narrator (voice)
Climbing Redwood Giants
2009 · Self - Narrator (voice)
With One Voice
2009 · Narrator
What The Tourist Should See
2009 · Narrator (voice)
Torturing Democracy
2009 · Narrator
Huxley on Huxley
2009 · Self
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
2009 · Narrator
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
2008 · Elliot Arthur
Adopt a Sailor
2008 · Richard
Au cœur du haras
2008 · Hock
A Single Woman
2008 · Maury Maverick
Un Amour de père
2008 · Burt Kruger
Finding Anastasia
2008 · Narrator
Illicit: The Dark Trade
2008 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Alaska Far Away
2008 · Narrator
Docteur Dolittle 4
2008 · President Sterling
The Brain Fitness Program
2008
Texas Gold
2008 · Narrator
Speak Out
2007
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
2007 · Narrator
Fog City Mavericks
2007 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Renaissance d'un champion
2007 · Ike Epstein
Hippies
2007 · Self
The Sunday Man
2007 · The Voice
Strange Culture
2007 · Self
Soldiers Of Conscience
2007 · Self
En territoire ennemi 2
2006 · President Adair T. Manning
Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business
2006 · Self
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006 · Narrator (voice)
AKA Tommy Chong
2006 · Himself
National Geographic : L'Évangile selon Judas
2006 · Narrator
Crime City
2005 · Frank
The Sacramento River of Life
2005 · Narrator
The War Prayer
2005 · Narrator
Le Retour des morts-vivants 5 : Rave mortelle
2005 · Uncle Charles
Le Retour des morts-vivants 4 : Necropole
2005 · Uncle Charles
The Tribe
2005 · Voice
Deepwater
2005 · Herman Finch
Enron : The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Commune
2005 · self, Black Bear resident
The Great Role
2004 · Rudolph Grichenberg
Shadow of Fear : l'Engrenage
2004 · Congressman Henderson
Oil on Ice
2004 · Narrator
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
2004
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003 · Narrator
The Hebrew Hammer
2003 · JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
Phénomènes
2003 · John Ringold
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Northfork
2003 · Eddie
Out of the Blue - The Definitive Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Les Liens du sang
2003 · John Traveller
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
2003 · Narrator
Bon Voyage
2003 · Alex Winckler
Grizzly Diaries
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
2002 · Narrator
A Time for Dancing
2002 · Wyn Michaels
Femme fatale
2002 · Watts
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
2002 · Narrator (voice)
Polanski y los ojos del mal
2002 · Himself
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2002 · Self
Purpose
2002 · Bernard Elias
Le Temps d'un automne
2002 · Reverend Sullivan
Suddenly Naked
2001 · Lionel Heathcote
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
2001 · Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
Midwives
2001 · Stephen Hastings
In the Light of Reverence
2001 · Narrator (voice)
Jack the Dog
2001 · Alfred
Sac d'embrouilles
2000 · Detective Darren Cody
En Lettres de Sang
2000 · Dennis Burke
The Wednesday Woman
2000 · Don Wigulow
The Basket
2000 · Martin Conlon
Erin Brockovich, seule contre tous
2000 · Kurt Potter
Search for the Submarine I-52
2000 · Narrator
Execution of Justice
1999 · Harvey Milk
Missing in Tibet
1999 · Narrator
L'Ombre d'un soupçon
1999 · Cullen Chandler
Jack Herer L Empereur Du Chanvre
1999 · Narrator
Murder on Shadow Mountain
1999 · Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
1999 · Himself - Narrator
Last Call
1999 · Xuave
Docteur Patch
1998 · Bill Davis
Route 9
1998 · Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
1998 · Narrator
LE PRIX DE L'INDISCRÉTION
1998 · Detective Roos
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
1998 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Seeds of Doubt
1998
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
1998 · Narrator
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
1998 · Narrator, English version (voice)
Sphère
1998 · Captain Harold C. Barnes
Two for Texas
1998 · Jim Bowie
San Francisco Diggers
1998
Avalanche: The White Death
1998 · Narrator
The Secrets of 007
1997 · Narrator (voice)
Cul-de-sac
1997 · Gene Gere
Les Rapaces
1997 · Doc 'The Butcher'
Murder in My Mind
1997 · Arthur Lefcourt
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
1997 · Narrator
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996 · Self
Drug War 2022
1996 · Deacon Vivyan
Dalva
1996 · Michael
Mémoires suspectes
1996 · Don Bresler
Moonlight et Valentino
1995 · Paul
That Eye, the Sky
1995 · Henry Warburton
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Narrator
Buffalo Girls
1995 · Buffalo Bill Cody
Abus de Pouvoir
1994 · Col. Andrew Case
The Peyote Road
1994 · Narrator
Roots of Roe
1993 · James Morris (voice)
Kika
1993 · Nicholas Pierce
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Reader (voice)
Lunes de fiel
1992 · Oscar
Keeper of the City
1991 · Frank Nordhall
Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
1991 · Thanks
Living a Lie
1991 · Matt
Amour déloyal
1991 · Edward Warren
High Art
1991 · Peter Mandrake
A Seduction in Travis County
1991 · Frank Maguire
The Man Inside
1990 · Henry Tobel
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Poison in the Rockies
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Unconquered
1989 · Richmond Flowers Sr.
Heart of Midnight
1988 · Sharpe/Larry
Baja Oklahoma
1988 · Slick Henderson
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988 · Narrator
Echoes in the Darkness
1987 · William Bradfield Jr.
A Man in Love
1987 · Steve Elliott
Sworn to Silence
1987 · Sam Fischetti
Outrageous Fortune
1987 · Michael Sanders
Stacking
1987 · The Photographer
Child's Cry
1986 · Matt Townsend
The Blue Yonder
1985 · Max Knickerbocker
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
1985 · Narrator (voice)
Jagged Edge
1985 · Thomas Krasny
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
1985 · Narrator
The Legend of Billie Jean
1985 · Ringwald
Scorned and Swindled
1984 · Anthony Ristelli
Heartbreakers
1984 · Blue
Best Kept Secrets
1984 · Frank Mitchell
Slayground
1984 · Stone
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
1983 · Narrator (voice)
Cross Creek
1983 · Norton Baskin
Strangers Kiss
1983 · Stanley, the Director
The UFO Experience
1982
Endangered Species
1982 · Steele
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982 · Porter Reese
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 · Keys
Breach of Contract
1982
Out
1982 · Rex
Isabel's Choice
1981 · Wynn Thomas
Southern Comfort
1981 · Poole
People vs. Jean Harris
1981 · George Bolen
Tell Me a Riddle
1980 · Young David
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980 · Courtney Taylor
Die Laughing
1980 · Davis
The Hippie Temptation
1967 · Digger
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
· Narrator
Hayden's Corner
· Narrator (voice)
Huichols and Pesticides
· Narrator (voice)
Séries (61)
La guerre d’indépendance américaine : toute l’histoire
2025 · Narrator (voice)
Kennedy
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Bison : une histoire de l'Amérique
2023 · Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice)
La Californie !
2023 · Self - Actor / Activist
L'Amérique face à l'Holocauste
2022 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Benjamin Franklin
2022 · Narrator (voice)
The Tent Mender
2021 · as Narrator
Hemingway
2021 · Narrator (voice)
The Comey Rule
2020 · Robert Mueller
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
2020 · Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
Country Music
2019 · Narrator
La Disparition
2017 · Henry Sullivan
Vietnam
2017 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Spoils Before Dying
2015 · Dizzy the Cat
Les Roosevelt, une histoire intime
2014 · Narrator (voice)
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014 · Himself
Intelligence
2014 · Leland Strand
De la poussière et des hommes
2012 · Peter Coyote
Dangerous Waters
2012 · Self
Perception
2012 · James Alan Pierce
Prohibition : une expérience américaine
2011 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Sur les traces d'Easy Rider
2011 · Self
Les Grandes Migrations
2010
Los Angeles : Police Judiciaire
2010 · Jerry Hardin
Sangre Azul
2010 · Senator Ted McCreary
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009 · Narrator
FlashForward
2009 · Dave Segovia
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
2009 · Himself - Narrator
Brothers and Sisters
2006 · Mark August
Commander in Chief
2005 · Warren Keaton
Un Monde de conquêtes
2005 · Narrator (voice)
The Inside : Dans la Tête des Tueurs
2005 · Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
New York Cour de Justice
2005 · Mike LaSalle
Les 4400
2004 · Dennis Ryland
Deadwood
2004 · General George Crook
NCIS : Enquêtes Spéciales
2003 · Ned Quinn
Founding Brothers
2002
The Color of War
2001 · Narrator
New York Section Criminelle
2001 · Lionel Shill
Division d'élite
2001 · Ross
Founding Fathers
2000 · John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
The History of Sex
1999 · Himself - Narrator
Independent Lens
1999
Rome: Power & Glory
1998 · Narrator
The West
1996 · Self - Narrator
Seduced by Madness
1996 · Ruben Borchardt
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
1996 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Cybill
1995 · Roger
Crímenes perfectos
1993 · Herman Charn
The Pacific Century
1992 · Narrator (voice)
Les Simpson
1989 · Peter Coyote (voice)
American Experience
1988 · Narrator (voice)
Echoes in the Darkness
1987 · William Bradfield Jr.
The Twilight Zone
1985 · (segment "Shadow Play")
National Geographic Explorer
1985 · Self - Narrator, Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Hitchhiker
1983 · Alex Nolan
Nature
1982 · Narrator (voice)
American Playhouse
1982 · Young David
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980 · Courtney Taylor
The Oscars
1953 · Self