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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 10, 1941
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon
- پیتر کایوتی
Peter Coyote
1.4 Popularity
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
0.0
Self
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
2025
6.9
Narrator (voice)
The Program
2024
0.0
Self
Good Men
2024
8.5
Narrator (voice)
Bad Faith
2024
7.4
Narrator (voice)
Kennedy
2023
6.7
Narrator (voice)
The American Buffalo
2023
0.0
Narrator
Fields of Gold
2023
8.0
Self - Actor / Activist
La Californie !
2023
8.0
Narrator
Against All Enemies
2023
0.0
Self
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
2022
Credits
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
as Self
2025
0.0
The Program
as Narrator (voice)
2024
6.9
Good Men
as Self
2024
0.0
Bad Faith
as Narrator (voice)
2024
8.5
Kennedy
as Narrator (voice)
2023
7.4
The American Buffalo
as Narrator (voice)
2023
6.7
Fields of Gold
as Narrator
2023
0.0
La Californie !
as Self - Actor / Activist
2023
8.0
Against All Enemies
as Narrator
2023
8.0
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
as Self
2022
0.0
Moment of Contact
as Narrator (voice)
2022
6.3
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
as Narrator
2022
0.0
The U.S. and the Holocaust
as Self - Narrator
2022
8.5
The Last Stand
as Narrator (voice)
2022
0.0
Benjamin Franklin
as Narrator (voice)
2022
7.7
A Cloud Never Dies
as Narrator (voice)
2022
0.0
The Tent Mender
as as Narrator
2021
3.0
The Co-op Wars
as Narrator (voice)
2021
0.0
Hemingway
as Narrator (voice)
2021
7.4
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
as Sam Donovan
2021
7.4
Wandering...But Not Lost
as Narrator
2021
0.0
Nepal Beyond
as Narrator
2021
0.0
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
as Narrator (voice)
2021
0.0
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
as Narrator
2021
0.0
The Phenomenon
as Narrator (voice)
2020
6.4
The Comey Rule
as Robert Mueller
2020
6.9
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
as Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
2020
6.7
🎬
Sunseed: The Journey
as Narrator (voice)
2020
0.0
Almost Thirteen
as Narrator
2020
0.0
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
as Self
2019
6.0
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
0.0
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
as narrator
2019
0.0
Country Music
as Narrator
2019
7.6
The Atomic Tree
as Narrator
2019
0.0
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
as Narrator
2018
0.0
As If They Were Angels
as Narrator
2018
0.0
The Mayo Clinic
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
7.0
Summer of Love
as Himself
2018
0.0
The Etruscan Smile
as Professor
2018
6.5
Spielberg
as Self
2017
7.6
The Disappearance
as Henry Sullivan
2017
7.3
The Vietnam War
as Narrator (voice)
2017
8.2
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
as Himself - Narrator
2017
7.5
1 Mile To You
as Principal Umber
2017
6.5
The Reality of Truth
as Self
2016
4.3
Americana
as Ben
2016
1.0
Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
as Himself
2016
6.0
Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
as Self
2015
10.0
The Spoils Before Dying
as Dizzy the Cat
2015
6.0
Eva & Leon
as Le Père
2015
4.6
No Deposit
as Police Chief Williams
2015
3.0
A Coup in Camelot
as Narrator (voice)
2015
10.0
Good Kill
as Langley
2015
6.0
Girl on the Edge
as Hank Taylor
2015
5.9
The Price of Fame
as Crooker
2015
5.2
Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
as Burt Lowell
2014
5.0
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as Narrator (voice)
2014
7.9
Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
as Narrator
2014
0.0
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Himself
2014
6.9
Angel Azul
as Narrator
2014
7.0
Intelligence
as Leland Strand
2014
6.4
Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
as Narrator
2013
0.0
The Ghost Army
as Narrator (Voice)
2013
8.1
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
as Self
2013
10.0
🎬
Rise Above the Mark
as Narrator
2012
9.0
The Dust Bowl
as Peter Coyote
2012
7.9
Dangerous Waters
as Self
2012
0.0
Hemingway & Gellhorn
as Maxwell Perkins
2012
6.1
Perception
as James Alan Pierce
2012
7.2
🎬
Right to Play
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Valparaiso
as Edward G. Drexler
2012
6.0
Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
as Narrator
2012
0.0
Prohibition
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2011
7.9
The Gundown
as Thomas Morgan
2011
4.1
I am Fishead
as narrator
2011
6.3
Bag It
as Self
2011
6.5
Oceans in Glass
as Narrator
2011
0.0
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
as self
2011
0.0
Last Will
as Judge Garner
2011
3.7
Green Fire
as Aldo Leopold (voice)
2011
0.0
This Is Not a Movie
2011
4.7
These Amazing Shadows
as Self
2011
7.4
Here
as Storyteller
2011
5.1
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
as Narrator (voice)
2011
4.2
Great Migrations
2010
7.6
DiDi Hollywood
as Michael McLean
2010
4.0
🎬
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
as Narrator
2010
0.0
Law & Order: LA
as Jerry Hardin
2010
6.8
Blue Bloods
as Senator Ted McCreary
2010
7.8
What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
as Narration
2010
8.5
🎬
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
as Narrator
2010
7.0
🎬
Vampire Forensics
2010
6.8
Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
as Narrstor (voice)
2009
7.5
24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
as Narrator
2009
0.0
🎬
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
0.0
I Know What I Saw
as Narrator (voice)
2009
7.5
Climbing Redwood Giants
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
0.0
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
as Narrator
2009
7.9
FlashForward
as Dave Segovia
2009
7.0
With One Voice
as Narrator
2009
1.0
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
as Himself - Narrator
2009
10.0
What The Tourist Should See
as Narrator (voice)
2009
8.0
Torturing Democracy
as Narrator
2009
0.0
🎬
Huxley on Huxley
as Self
2009
0.0
Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
as Narrator
2009
0.0
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
as Elliot Arthur
2008
6.0
Adopt a Sailor
as Richard
2008
5.6
A Single Woman
as Maury Maverick
2008
7.0
$5 a Day
as Burt Kruger
2008
5.6
Illicit: The Dark Trade
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2008
0.0
Alaska Far Away
as Narrator
2008
0.0
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
as President Sterling
2008
5.4
The Brain Fitness Program
2008
0.0
All Roads Lead Home
as Hock
2008
5.8
🎬
Texas Gold
as Narrator
2008
0.0
One Man, One Cow, One Planet
as Narrator
2007
6.0
Fog City Mavericks
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2007
8.5
Resurrecting the Champ
as Ike Epstein
2007
6.3
Hippies
as Self
2007
0.0
The Sunday Man
as The Voice
2007
0.0
Strange Culture
as Self
2007
4.7
Soldiers Of Conscience
as Self
2007
5.1
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
as President Adair T. Manning
2006
4.8
Brothers and Sisters
as Mark August
2006
7.1
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
as Narrator (voice)
2006
0.0
AKA Tommy Chong
as Himself
2006
7.4
The Gospel of Judas
2006
7.3
The Gospel of Judas
as Narrator
2006
7.3
A Little Trip to Heaven
as Frank
2005
5.4
The Sacramento River of Life
as Narrator
2005
10.0
🎬
The War Prayer
as Narrator
2005
0.0
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
as Uncle Charles
2005
5.2
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
as Uncle Charles
2005
5.2
Commander in Chief
as Warren Keaton
2005
7.7
The Tribe
as Voice
2005
5.0
Guns Germs & Steel
as Narrator (voice)
2005
6.4
Deepwater
as Herman Finch
2005
5.0
The Inside
as Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
2005
7.2
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
as Narrator
2005
7.2
Commune
as self, Black Bear resident
2005
5.9
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Mike LaSalle
2005
8.1
The Great Role
as Rudolph Grichenberg
2004
5.8
Shadow of Fear
as Congressman Henderson
2004
5.3
The 4400
as Dennis Ryland
2004
7.2
Oil on Ice
as Narrator
2004
0.0
Deadwood
as General Crook
2004
8.1
🎬
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
2004
7.0
🎬
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
as Narrator
2003
0.0
The Hebrew Hammer
as JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
2003
5.4
Phenomenon II
as John Ringold
2003
6.0
NCIS
as Ned Quinn
2003
7.6
Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
as Narrator (voice)
2003
6.0
Northfork
as Eddie
2003
6.0
Out of the Blue
as Narrator (voice)
2003
7.6
Written In Blood
as John Traveller
2003
5.2
National Geographic: Surviving Everest
as Narrator
2003
6.0
Bon Voyage
as Alex Winckler
2003
6.3
Grizzly Diaries
as Narrator (voice)
2003
0.0
A Time for Dancing
as Wyn Michaels
2002
6.7
Founding Brothers
2002
0.0
Femme Fatale
as Watts
2002
6.1
Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
as Narrator (voice)
2002
0.0
🎬
Polanski y los ojos del mal
as Himself
2002
6.0
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
as Self
2002
7.3
Purpose
as Bernard Elias
2002
4.4
A Walk to Remember
as Reverend Sullivan
2002
7.8
The Color of War
as Narrator
2001
0.0
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Lionel Shill
2001
7.6
Suddenly Naked
as Lionel Heathcote
2001
4.6
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
as Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
2001
0.0
Midwives
as Stephen Hastings
2001
6.3
In the Light of Reverence
as Narrator (voice)
2001
0.0
Jack the Dog
as Alfred
2001
3.5
The Division
2001
7.0
Founding Fathers
as John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
2000
0.0
More Dogs Than Bones
as Detective Darren Cody
2000
4.6
Red Letters
as Dennis Burke
2000
5.0
The Wednesday Woman
as Don Wigulow
2000
0.0
The Basket
as Martin Conlon
2000
6.3
Erin Brockovich
as Kurt Potter
2000
7.4
Search for the Submarine I-52
as Narrator
2000
0.0
Execution of Justice
as Harvey Milk
1999
5.3
🎬
Missing in Tibet
as Narrator
1999
0.0
Random Hearts
as Cullen Chandler
1999
5.5
The History of Sex
as Himself - Narrator
1999
9.3
Independent Lens
1999
6.5
Emperor of Hemp
as Narrator
1999
4.2
Murder on Shadow Mountain
as Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
1999
1.5
National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
as Himself - Narrator
1999
0.0
Last Call
as Xuave
1999
4.8
Patch Adams
as Bill Davis
1998
7.3
Route 9
as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
1998
6.7
🎬
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
as Narrator
1998
0.0
Indiscreet
as Detective Roos
1998
5.4
National Geographic's Storm of the Century
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1998
0.0
Seeds Of Doubt
1998
4.1
🎬
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
as Narrator
1998
0.0
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
as Narrator, English version (voice)
1998
7.0
Rome: Power & Glory
as Narrator
1998
8.0
Sphere
as Captain Harold C. Barnes
1998
6.1
Two for Texas
as Jim Bowie
1998
6.0
🎬
San Francisco Diggers
1998
7.5
Avalanche: The White Death
as Narrator
1998
8.0
The Secrets of 007
as Narrator (voice)
1997
7.9
Road Ends
as Gene Gere
1997
4.0
Top of the World
as Doc 'The Butcher'
1997
5.0
Murder in My Mind
as Arthur Lefcourt
1997
1.5
Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
as Narrator
1997
0.0
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
as Self
1996
7.4
The West
as Self - Narrator
1996
8.4
Terminal Justice
as Deacon Vivyan
1996
4.8
Dalva
as Michael
1996
3.3
Seduced by Madness
as Ruben Borchardt
1996
4.0
Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
as Ruben Borchardt
1996
9.0
Unforgettable
as Don Bresler
1996
5.6
21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1996
0.0
Moonlight and Valentino
as Paul
1995
5.6
That Eye, the Sky
as Henry Warburton
1995
4.3
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Narrator
1995
8.1
Buffalo Girls
as Buffalo Bill Cody
1995
6.6
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
as Self
1995
10.0
American Cinema
as Narrator
1995
0.0
Breach of Conduct
as Col. Andrew Case
1994
4.3
The Peyote Road
as Narrator
1994
7.0
Kika
as Nicholas Pierce
1993
6.5
Fallen Angels
as Herman Charn
1993
5.9
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
6.7
🎬
The Pacific Century
as Narrator (voice)
1992
0.0
Bitter Moon
as Oscar
1992
7.1
Keeper of the City
as Frank Nordhall
1991
5.5
Living a Lie
as Matt
1991
0.0
Crooked Hearts
as Edward Warren
1991
5.5
High Art
as Peter Mandrake
1991
4.5
A Seduction in Travis County
as Frank Maguire
1991
1.0
🎬
The Man Inside
as Henry Tobel
1990
2.0
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
as Narrator (voice)
1990
6.6
Poison in the Rockies
as Narrator (voice)
1990
0.0
The Simpsons
as Peter Coyote (voice)
1989
8.0
Unconquered
as Richmond Flowers Sr.
1989
10.0
Heart of Midnight
as Sharpe/Larry
1988
5.7
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
7.4
Baja Oklahoma
as Slick Henderson
1988
6.3
🎬
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
as Narrator
1988
0.0
Echoes in the Darkness
as William Bradfield Jr.
1987
0.0
Echoes in the Darkness
as William Bradfield Jr.
1987
7.5
A Man in Love
as Steve Elliott
1987
4.3
Sworn to Silence
as Sam Fischetti
1987
6.0
Outrageous Fortune
as Michael Sanders
1987
6.0
Stacking
as The Photographer
1987
0.0
Child's Cry
as Matt Townsend
1986
5.0
The Blue Yonder
as Max Knickerbocker
1985
5.5
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
as Narrator (voice)
1985
0.0
Jagged Edge
as Thomas Krasny
1985
6.3
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Shadow Play")
1985
7.8
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
as Narrator
1985
6.3
The Legend of Billie Jean
as Lt. Larry Ringwald
1985
6.5
Explorer
1985
5.8
Explorer
as Self - Narrator
1985
5.8
Explorer
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
1985
5.8
Scorned and Swindled
as Anthony Ristelli
1984
6.0
Heartbreakers
as Blue
1984
5.0
Best Kept Secrets
as Frank Mitchell
1984
7.5
Slayground
as Stone
1983
4.1
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
as Narrator (voice)
1983
0.0
The Hitchhiker
as Alex Nolan
1983
6.1
Cross Creek
as Norton Baskin
1983
6.6
Strangers Kiss
as Stanley, the Director
1983
4.0
🎬
The UFO Experience
1982
10.0
Nature
as Narrator (voice)
1982
8.1
Endangered Species
as Steele
1982
4.9
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
as Porter Reese
1982
5.3
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
as Keys
1982
7.5
Out
as Rex
1982
4.6
Breach of Contract
1982
0.0
Isabel's Choice
as Wynn Thomas
1981
0.0
Southern Comfort
as Poole
1981
6.9
People vs. Jean Harris
as George Bolen
1981
0.0
Tell Me a Riddle
as Young David
1980
6.0
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
as Courtney Taylor
1980
4.5
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
as Courtney Taylor
1980
5.0
Die Laughing
as Davis
1980
4.7
The Hippie Temptation
as Digger
1967
6.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
as Narrator
N/A
0.0
San Francisco Stories
as Narrator/SInger
N/A
0.0
🎬
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
N/A
0.0