Actor
· Acting
Peter Coyote
Born 1941-10-10
📍 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 277
The American Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
2025
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
as Narrator
2025
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
as Narrator (voice)
2025
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
as Self
2025
The Program
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Good Men
as Self
2024
Bad Faith
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Kennedy
as Narrator (voice)
2023
The American Buffalo
as Narrator (voice)
2023
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
Fields of Gold
as Narrator
2023
La Californie !
as Self - Actor / Activist
2023
Spirit of Golf
as Self
2023
Against All Enemies
as Narrator
2023
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
as Self
2022
Moment of Contact
as Narrator (voice)
2022
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
as Narrator
2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Self - Narrator
2022
The Last Stand
as Narrator (voice)
2022
Benjamin Franklin
as Narrator (voice)
2022
A Cloud Never Dies
as Narrator (voice)
2022
The Tent Mender
as as Narrator
2021
The Co-op Wars
as Narrator (voice)
2021
San Francisco Stories
as Narrator/SInger
2021
Hemingway
as Narrator (voice)
2021
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
as Sam Donovan
2021
Wandering...But Not Lost
as Narrator
2021
Nepal Beyond
as Narrator
2021
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
as Narrator (voice)
2021
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
as Narrator
2021
The Phenomenon
as Narrator (voice)
2020
The Comey Rule
as Robert Mueller
2020
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
as Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
2020
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
as Narrator (voice)
2020
Almost Thirteen
as Narrator
2020
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
as Self
2019
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
as narrator
2019
Country Music
as Narrator
2019
The Atomic Tree
as Narrator
2019
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
as Narrator
2018
As If They Were Angels
as Narrator
2018
The Mayo Clinic
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
Summer of Love
as Himself
2018
The Etruscan Smile
as Professor
2018
Saving Atlantis
2018
Spielberg
as Self
2017
The Disappearance
as Henry Sullivan
2017
The Vietnam War
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
as Himself - Narrator
2017
1 Mile To You
as Principal Umber
2017
The Reality of Truth
as Self
2016
Americana
as Ben
2016
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
as Himself
2016
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
as Self
2015
The Spoils Before Dying
as Dizzy the Cat
2015
Eva & Leon
as Le Père
2015
No Deposit
as Police Chief Williams
2015
A Coup in Camelot
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Good Kill
as Langley
2015
Girl on the Edge
as Hank Taylor
2015
The Price of Fame
as Crooker
2015
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
as Burt Lowell
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as Narrator (voice)
2014
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
as Narrator
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Himself
2014
Angel Azul
as Narrator
2014
Intelligence
as Leland Strand
2014
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
as Narrator
2013
The Ghost Army
as Narrator (Voice)
2013
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
as Self
2013
The Dust Bowl
as Peter Coyote
2012
Dangerous Waters
as Self
2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn
as Maxwell Perkins
2012
Perception
as James Alan Pierce
2012
Valparaiso
as Edward G. Drexler
2012
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
as Narrator
2012
Prohibition
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011
The Gundown
as Thomas Morgan
2011
I am Fishead
as narrator
2011
Bag It
as Self
2011
Oceans in Glass
as Narrator
2011
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
as Self
2011
Last Will
as Judge Garner
2011
Green Fire
as Aldo Leopold (voice)
2011
This Is Not a Movie
2011
These Amazing Shadows
as Self
2011
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
as Narrator (voice)
2011
Here
as Storyteller
2011
Great Migrations
2010
DiDi Hollywood
as Michael McLean
2010
Law & Order: LA
as Jerry Hardin
2010
Blue Bloods
as Senator Ted McCreary
2010
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
as Narration
2010
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
as Narrstor (voice)
2009
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
as Narrator
2009
I Know What I Saw
as Narrator (voice)
2009
Climbing Redwood Giants
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
as Narrator
2009
FlashForward
as Dave Segovia
2009
With One Voice
as Narrator
2009
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
as Himself - Narrator
2009
What The Tourist Should See
as Narrator (voice)
2009
Torturing Democracy
as Narrator
2009
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
as Narrator
2009
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
as Elliot Arthur
2008
Adopt a Sailor
as Richard
2008
All Roads Lead Home
as Hock
2008
A Single Woman
as Maury Maverick
2008
$5 a Day
as Burt Kruger
2008
Finding Anastasia
as Narrator
2008
Illicit: The Dark Trade
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2008
Alaska Far Away
as Narrator
2008
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
as President Sterling
2008
The Brain Fitness Program
2008
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
as Narrator
2007
Fog City Mavericks
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2007
Resurrecting the Champ
as Ike Epstein
2007
Hippies
as Self
2007
The Sunday Man
as The Voice
2007
Strange Culture
as Self
2007
Soldiers Of Conscience
as Self
2007
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
as President Adair T. Manning
2006
Brothers and Sisters
as Mark August
2006
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
as Narrator (voice)
2006
AKA Tommy Chong
as Himself
2006
The Gospel of Judas
2006
The Gospel of Judas
as Narrator
2006
A Little Trip to Heaven
as Frank
2005
The Sacramento River of Life
as Narrator
2005
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
as Uncle Charles
2005
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
as Uncle Charles
2005
Commander in Chief
as Warren Keaton
2005
The Tribe
as Voice
2005
Guns Germs & Steel
as Narrator (voice)
2005
Deepwater
as Herman Finch
2005
The Inside
as Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
2005
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2005
Commune
as self, Black Bear resident
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Mike LaSalle
2005
The Great Role
as Rudolph Grichenberg
2004
Shadow of Fear
as Congressman Henderson
2004
The 4400
as Dennis Ryland
2004
Oil on Ice
as Narrator
2004
Deadwood
as General Crook
2004
The Hebrew Hammer
as JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
2003
Phenomenon II
as John Ringold
2003
NCIS
as Ned Quinn
2003
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
as Narrator (voice)
2003
Northfork
as Eddie
2003
Out of the Blue
as Narrator (voice)
2003
Written In Blood
as John Traveller
2003
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
as Narrator
2003
Bon Voyage
as Alex Winckler
2003
Grizzly Diaries
as Narrator (voice)
2003
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
as Narrator
2002
A Time for Dancing
as Wyn Michaels
2002
Founding Brothers
2002
Femme Fatale
as Watts
2002
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
as Narrator (voice)
2002
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
as Self
2002
Purpose
as Bernard Elias
2002
A Walk to Remember
as Reverend Sullivan
2002
The Color of War
as Narrator
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Lionel Shill
2001
Suddenly Naked
as Lionel Heathcote
2001
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
as Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
2001
Midwives
as Stephen Hastings
2001
In the Light of Reverence
as Narrator (voice)
2001
Jack the Dog
as Alfred
2001
The Division
as Ross
2001
Founding Fathers
as John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
2000
More Dogs Than Bones
as Detective Darren Cody
2000
Red Letters
as Dennis Burke
2000
The Wednesday Woman
as Don Wigulow
2000
The Basket
as Martin Conlon
2000
Erin Brockovich
as Kurt Potter
2000
Search for the Submarine I-52
as Narrator
2000
Execution of Justice
as Harvey Milk
1999
Random Hearts
as Cullen Chandler
1999
The History of Sex
as Himself - Narrator
1999
Independent Lens
1999
Emperor of Hemp
as Narrator
1999
Murder on Shadow Mountain
as Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
1999
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
as Himself - Narrator
1999
Last Call
as Xuave
1999
Patch Adams
as Bill Davis
1998
Route 9
as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
1998
Indiscreet
as Detective Roos
1998
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
Seeds Of Doubt
1998
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
as Narrator
1998
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
as Narrator, English version (voice)
1998
Rome: Power & Glory
as Narrator
1998
Sphere
as Captain Harold C. Barnes
1998
Two for Texas
as Jim Bowie
1998
Avalanche: The White Death
as Narrator
1998
The Secrets of 007
as Narrator (voice)
1997
Road Ends
as Gene Gere
1997
Top of the World
as Doc 'The Butcher'
1997
Murder in My Mind
as Arthur Lefcourt
1997
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
as Narrator
1997
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
as Self
1996
The West
as Self - Narrator
1996
Terminal Justice
as Deacon Vivyan
1996
Dalva
as Michael
1996
Seduced by Madness
as Ruben Borchardt
1996
Unforgettable
as Don Bresler
1996
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1996
Moonlight and Valentino
as Paul
1995
That Eye, the Sky
as Henry Warburton
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Narrator
1995
Buffalo Girls
as Buffalo Bill Cody
1995
Cybill
as Roger
1995
Breach of Conduct
as Col. Andrew Case
1994
The Peyote Road
as Narrator
1994
Kika
as Nicholas Pierce
1993
Fallen Angels
as Herman Charn
1993
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
Bitter Moon
as Oscar
1992
Keeper of the City
as Frank Nordhall
1991
Living a Lie
as Matt
1991
Crooked Hearts
as Edward Warren
1991
High Art
as Peter Mandrake
1991
A Seduction in Travis County
as Frank Maguire
1991
The Man Inside
as Henry Tobel
1990
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
as Narrator (voice)
1990
Poison in the Rockies
as Narrator (voice)
1990
The Simpsons
as Peter Coyote (voice)
1989
Unconquered
as Richmond Flowers Sr.
1989
Heart of Midnight
as Sharpe/Larry
1988
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
Baja Oklahoma
as Slick Henderson
1988
Echoes in the Darkness
as William Bradfield Jr.
1987
Echoes in the Darkness
as William Bradfield Jr.
1987
A Man in Love
as Steve Elliott
1987
Sworn to Silence
as Sam Fischetti
1987
Outrageous Fortune
as Michael Sanders
1987
Stacking
as The Photographer
1987
Child's Cry
as Matt Townsend
1986
The Blue Yonder
as Max Knickerbocker
1985
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
as Narrator (voice)
1985
Jagged Edge
as Thomas Krasny
1985
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Shadow Play")
1985
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
as Narrator
1985
The Legend of Billie Jean
as Ringwald
1985
Explorer
1985
Explorer
as Self - Narrator
1985
Explorer
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
1985
Scorned and Swindled
as Anthony Ristelli
1984
Heartbreakers
as Blue
1984
Best Kept Secrets
as Frank Mitchell
1984
Slayground
as Stone
1983
The Hitchhiker
as Alex Nolan
1983
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
as Narrator (voice)
1983
Cross Creek
as Norton Baskin
1983
Strangers Kiss
as Stanley, the Director
1983
Nature
as Narrator (voice)
1982
Endangered Species
as Steele
1982
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
as Porter Reese
1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
as Keys
1982
Breach of Contract
1982
Out
as Rex
1982
Isabel's Choice
as Wynn Thomas
1981
Southern Comfort
as Poole
1981
People vs. Jean Harris
as George Bolen
1981
Tell Me a Riddle
as Young David
1980
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
as Courtney Taylor
1980
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
as Courtney Taylor
1980
Die Laughing
as Davis
1980
The Hippie Temptation
as Digger
1967
The Oscars
as Self
1953
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
as Narrator
Hayden's Corner
as Narrator (voice)
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
as Narrator