Peter Coyote
Acting
- Born:
- 1941-10-10
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
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
Filmography
Antonio's Road
Cornellskop: Freedom From Fear
Lightworkers
The American Revolution
Black Mountain Blues
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
The Program
Good Men
Bad Faith
Kennedy
The American Buffalo
San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time
Fields of Gold
La Californie !
Spirit of Golf
Against All Enemies
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Moment of Contact
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
The U.S. and the Holocaust
The Last Stand
Benjamin Franklin
A Cloud Never Dies
The Tent Mender
The Co-op Wars
San Francisco Stories
Hemingway
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
Wandering...But Not Lost
Nepal Beyond
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
The Phenomenon
The Comey Rule
Helter Skelter: An American Myth
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces
Sunseed: The Journey
Almost Thirteen
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
Country Music
The Atomic Tree
The Remarkable Life of John Weld
As If They Were Angels
The Mayo Clinic
Summer of Love
The Etruscan Smile
Saving Atlantis
Spielberg
The Disappearance
The Vietnam War
Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
1 Mile To You
Paris Can Wait
The Reality of Truth
Americana