Peter Coyote
Known for Acting · 297 credits
- Born
- 1941-10-10 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon
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
TV Shows (60)
NCIS
2003
as Ned Quinn
The Simpsons
1989
as Peter Coyote (voice)
Blue Bloods
2010
as Senator Ted McCreary
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Lionel Shill
American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
Nature
1982
as Narrator (voice)
Brothers and Sisters
2006
as Mark August
The Division
2001
as Ross
The Twilight Zone
1985
as (segment "Shadow Play")
Deadwood
2004
as General Crook
The 4400
2004
as Dennis Ryland
Perception
2012
as James Alan Pierce
Independent Lens
1999
Cybill
1995
as Roger
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Law & Order: LA
2010
as Jerry Hardin
The Hitchhiker
1983
as Alex Nolan
FlashForward
2009
as Dave Segovia
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
as Mike LaSalle
Fallen Angels
1993
as Herman Charn
Commander in Chief
2005
as Warren Keaton
The American Revolution
2025
as Narrator (voice)
Intelligence
2014
as Leland Strand
The Inside
2005
as Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Himself
The Vietnam War
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Explorer
1985
as Self - Narrator / Himself - Narrator (voice)
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009
as Narrator
Prohibition
2011
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
as Self - Narrator
The West
1996
as Self - Narrator
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
as Courtney Taylor
The Disappearance
2017
as Henry Sullivan
The Spoils Before Dying
2015
as Dizzy the Cat
The Comey Rule
2020
as Robert Mueller
Country Music
2019
as Narrator
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
as Narrator (voice)
Great Migrations
2010
Hemingway
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
as William Bradfield Jr.
The American Buffalo
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
2020
as Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
2011
as Self
Benjamin Franklin
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Seduced by Madness
1996
as Ruben Borchardt
Founding Fathers
2000
as John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Kennedy
2023
as Narrator (voice)
The Dust Bowl
2012
as Peter Coyote
La Californie !
2023
as Self - Actor / Activist
The Pacific Century
1992
as Narrator (voice)
The History of Sex
1999
as Himself - Narrator
The Color of War
2001
as Narrator
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
1996
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Guns Germs & Steel
2005
as Narrator (voice)
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Dangerous Waters
2012
as Self
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
2009
as Himself - Narrator
Rome: Power & Glory
1998
as Narrator
Founding Brothers
2002
The Tent Mender
2021
as as Narrator
Movies (237)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
as Keys
Bitter Moon
1992
as Oscar
A Walk to Remember
2002
as Reverend Sullivan
Erin Brockovich
2000
as Kurt Potter
Sphere
1998
as Captain Harold C. Barnes
Femme Fatale
2002
as Watts
Patch Adams
1998
as Bill Davis
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
2021
as Sam Donovan
Random Hearts
1999
as Cullen Chandler
Southern Comfort
1981
as Poole
Spielberg
2017
as Self
Crooked Hearts
1991
as Edward Warren
Kika
1993
as Nicholas Pierce
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006
as President Adair T. Manning
Here
2011
as Storyteller
Good Kill
2015
as Langley
Jagged Edge
1985
as Thomas Krasny
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
as Maxwell Perkins
Indiscreet
1998
as Detective Roos
Last Call
1999
as Xuave
Moonlight and Valentino
1995
as Paul
Heartbreakers
1984
as Blue
Good Men
2024
as Self
Unforgettable
1996
as Don Bresler
Midwives
2001
as Stephen Hastings
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
2005
as Uncle Charles
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005
as Uncle Charles
The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Professor
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
2008
as President Sterling
Cross Creek
1983
as Norton Baskin
$5 a Day
2008
as Burt Kruger
People vs. Jean Harris
1981
as George Bolen
Deepwater
2005
as Herman Finch
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Narrator
The Legend of Billie Jean
1985
as Ringwald
The Great Role
2004
as Rudolph Grichenberg
Northfork
2003
as Eddie
Valparaiso
2012
as Edward G. Drexler
Buffalo Girls
1995
as Buffalo Bill Cody
Outrageous Fortune
1987
as Michael Sanders
Resurrecting the Champ
2007
as Ike Epstein
Echoes in the Darkness
1987
as William Bradfield Jr.
A Little Trip to Heaven
2005
as Frank
No Deposit
2015
as Police Chief Williams
Slayground
1983
as Stone
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015
as Self
These Amazing Shadows
2011
as Self
Fog City Mavericks
2007
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Bon Voyage
2003
as Alex Winckler
Phenomenon II
2003
as John Ringold
Earth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
The Mayo Clinic
2018
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Hebrew Hammer
2003
as JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
The Gundown
2011
as Thomas Morgan
Baja Oklahoma
1988
as Slick Henderson
Red Letters
2000
as Dennis Burke
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982
as Porter Reese
Unconquered
1989
as Richmond Flowers Sr.
Road Ends
1997
as Gene Gere
Shadow of Fear
2004
as Congressman Henderson
Terminal Justice
1996
as Deacon Vivyan
1 Mile To You
2017
as Principal Umber
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2002
as Self
The Phenomenon
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988
as Narrator
This Is Not a Movie
2011
A Man in Love
1987
as Steve Elliott
A Single Woman
2008
as Maury Maverick
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
as Courtney Taylor
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Endangered Species
1982
as Steele
Right to Play
2012
as Narrator
Against All Enemies
2023
as Narrator
A Time for Dancing
2002
as Wyn Michaels
The Blue Yonder
1985
as Max Knickerbocker
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996
as Self
Heart of Midnight
1988
as Sharpe/Larry
Last Will
2011
as Judge Garner
High Art
1991
as Peter Mandrake
Route 9
1998
as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
More Dogs Than Bones
2000
as Detective Darren Cody
The Reality of Truth
2016
as Self
The Hippie Temptation
1967
as Digger
Jack the Dog
2001
as Alfred
Purpose
2002
as Bernard Elias
Child's Cry
1986
as Matt Townsend
All Roads Lead Home
2008
as Hock
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
2002
as Narrator
DiDi Hollywood
2010
as Michael McLean
Bag It
2011
as Self
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
1998
as Narrator, English version (voice)
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
1998
as Narrator
Moment of Contact
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
as Self
Written In Blood
2003
as John Traveller
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Suddenly Naked
2001
as Lionel Heathcote
Top of the World
1997
as Doc 'The Butcher'
Sunseed: The Journey
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Out
1982
as Rex
Two for Texas
1998
as Jim Bowie
The Man Inside
1990
as Henry Tobel
Execution of Justice
1999
as Harvey Milk
The Program
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
2014
as Burt Lowell
Wandering...But Not Lost
2021
as Narrator
Bad Faith
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Best Kept Secrets
1984
as Frank Mitchell
Keeper of the City
1991
as Frank Nordhall
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003
as Narrator
The Basket
2000
as Martin Conlon
Americana
2016
as Ben
Climbing Redwood Giants
2009
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Secrets of 007
1997
as Narrator (voice)
The Price of Fame
2015
as Crooker
Girl on the Edge
2015
as Hank Taylor
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
2009
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
2008
as Elliot Arthur
About 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 Francisc… With 297 credits spanning from 1953 to 2025, Peter Coyote has appeared in 237 films and 60 TV shows.
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Most Popular Peter Coyote Movies
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) — as Keys
- Bitter Moon (1992) — as Oscar
- A Walk to Remember (2002) — as Reverend Sullivan
- Erin Brockovich (2000) — as Kurt Potter
- Sphere (1998) — as Captain Harold C. Barnes
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