Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1941-10-10 (Age: 85)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Peter Coyote
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.
Filmography (233)
Black Mountain Blues
2025
The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today
2025
Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters
2025
O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
2025
The Program
2024
Good Men
2024
Bad Faith
2024
Fields of Gold
2023
Spirit of Golf
2023
Against All Enemies
2023
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
2022
Moment of Contact
2022
The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
2022
The Last Stand
2022
