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.
Known For

NCIS

The Simpsons

Blue Bloods

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

American Experience

Nature

Brothers and Sisters

The Division
All Movies (238)
- Black Mountain Blues2025
- The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero -- And Nuclear Peril Today2025 · as Narrator
- Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters2025 · as Narrator (voice)
- O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder2025 · as Self
- The Program2024 · as Narrator (voice)
- Good Men2024 · as Self
- Bad Faith2024 · as Narrator (voice)
- Fields of Gold2023 · as Narrator
- Spirit of Golf2023 · as Self
- Against All Enemies2023 · as Narrator
- Jerry Brown: The Disrupter2022 · as Self
- Moment of Contact2022 · as Narrator (voice)
- The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story2022 · as Narrator
- The Last Stand2022 · as Narrator (voice)
- A Cloud Never Dies2022 · as Narrator (voice)
- The Co-op Wars2021 · as Narrator (voice)
- San Francisco Stories2021 · as Narrator/SInger
- The Girl Who Believes in Miracles2021 · as Sam Donovan
- Wandering...But Not Lost2021 · as Narrator
- Nepal Beyond2021 · as Narrator
- Downwinders and the Radioactive West2021 · as Narrator (voice)
- Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve2021 · as Narrator
- The Phenomenon2020 · as Narrator (voice)
- About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces2020 · as Narrator (voice)
- Sunseed: The Journey2020 · as Narrator (voice)
- Almost Thirteen2020 · as Narrator
- Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre2019 · as Self
- Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale2019 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey2019 · as narrator
- The Atomic Tree2019 · as Narrator
- The Remarkable Life of John Weld2018 · as Narrator
- As If They Were Angels2018 · as Narrator
- The Mayo Clinic2018 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Summer of Love2018 · as Himself
- The Etruscan Smile2018 · as Professor
- Saving Atlantis2018
- Spielberg2017 · as Self
- Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties2017
- The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple2017 · as Himself - Narrator
- 1 Mile To You2017 · as Principal Umber
- The Reality of Truth2016 · as Self
- Americana2016 · as Ben
- Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.2016 · as Himself
- Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy2015 · as Self
- A Daring Journey: From Immigration to Education2015 · as Narrator
- Eva & Leon2015 · as Le Père
- No Deposit2015 · as Police Chief Williams
- A Coup in Camelot2015 · as Narrator (voice)
- Good Kill2015 · as Langley
- Girl on the Edge2015 · as Hank Taylor
- The Price of Fame2015 · as Crooker
- Bangkok, We Have A Problem!2014 · as Burt Lowell
- Realm of the Ancient Redwoods2014 · as Narrator
- Angel Azul2014 · as Narrator
- Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form2013 · as Narrator
- The Ghost Army2013 · as Narrator (Voice)
- Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal2013 · as Self
- Rise Above the Mark2012 · as Narrator
- Hemingway & Gellhorn2012 · as Maxwell Perkins
- Right to Play2012 · as Narrator
- Valparaiso2012 · as Edward G. Drexler
- Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '722012 · as Narrator
- The Gundown2011 · as Thomas Morgan
- I am Fishead2011 · as narrator
- Bag It2011 · as Self
- Oceans in Glass2011 · as Narrator
- Last Will2011 · as Judge Garner
- Green Fire2011 · as Aldo Leopold (voice)
- This Is Not a Movie2011
- These Amazing Shadows2011 · as Self
- Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology2011 · as Narrator (voice)
- Here2011 · as Storyteller
- DiDi Hollywood2010 · as Michael McLean
- Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision2010 · as Narrator
- What If Cannabis Cured Cancer2010 · as Narration
- Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction2010 · as Narrator
- Vampire Forensics2010
- Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil2009 · as Narrstor (voice)
- 24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact2009 · as Narrator
- For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska2009 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- I Know What I Saw2009 · as Narrator (voice)
- Climbing Redwood Giants2009 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- With One Voice2009 · as Narrator
- What The Tourist Should See2009 · as Narrator (voice)
- Torturing Democracy2009 · as Narrator
- Huxley on Huxley2009 · as Self
- Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder2009 · as Narrator
- Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story2008 · as Elliot Arthur
- Adopt a Sailor2008 · as Richard
- All Roads Lead Home2008 · as Hock
- A Single Woman2008 · as Maury Maverick
- $5 a Day2008 · as Burt Kruger
- Finding Anastasia2008 · as Narrator
- Illicit: The Dark Trade2008 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Alaska Far Away2008 · as Narrator
- Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief2008 · as President Sterling
- The Brain Fitness Program2008
- Texas Gold2008 · as Narrator
- One Man, One Cow, One Planet2007 · as Narrator
- Fog City Mavericks2007 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Resurrecting the Champ2007 · as Ike Epstein
- Hippies2007 · as Self
- The Sunday Man2007 · as The Voice
- Strange Culture2007 · as Self
- Soldiers Of Conscience2007 · as Self
- Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil2006 · as President Adair T. Manning
- Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business2006 · as Self
- Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home2006 · as Narrator (voice)
- AKA Tommy Chong2006 · as Himself
- The Gospel of Judas2006
- The Gospel of Judas2006 · as Narrator
- A Little Trip to Heaven2005 · as Frank
- The Sacramento River of Life2005 · as Narrator
- The War Prayer2005 · as Narrator
- Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave2005 · as Uncle Charles
- Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis2005 · as Uncle Charles
- The Tribe2005 · as Voice
- Deepwater2005 · as Herman Finch
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Commune2005 · as self, Black Bear resident
- The Great Role2004 · as Rudolph Grichenberg
- Shadow of Fear2004 · as Congressman Henderson
- Oil on Ice2004 · as Narrator
- Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer2004
- Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork2003 · as Narrator
- The Hebrew Hammer2003 · as JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
- Phenomenon II2003 · as John Ringold
- Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina2003 · as Narrator (voice)
- Northfork2003 · as Eddie
- Out of the Blue2003 · as Narrator (voice)
- Written In Blood2003 · as John Traveller
- National Geographic: Surviving Everest2003 · as Narrator
- Bon Voyage2003 · as Alex Winckler
- Grizzly Diaries2003 · as Narrator (voice)
- Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election2002 · as Narrator
- A Time for Dancing2002 · as Wyn Michaels
- Femme Fatale2002 · as Watts
- Empty Oceans, Empty Nets2002 · as Narrator (voice)
- Polanski y los ojos del mal2002 · as Himself
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special2002 · as Self
- Purpose2002 · as Bernard Elias
- A Walk to Remember2002 · as Reverend Sullivan
- Suddenly Naked2001 · as Lionel Heathcote
- Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore2001 · as Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
- Midwives2001 · as Stephen Hastings
- In the Light of Reverence2001 · as Narrator (voice)
- Jack the Dog2001 · as Alfred
- More Dogs Than Bones2000 · as Detective Darren Cody
- Red Letters2000 · as Dennis Burke
- The Wednesday Woman2000 · as Don Wigulow
- The Basket2000 · as Martin Conlon
- Erin Brockovich2000 · as Kurt Potter
- Search for the Submarine I-522000 · as Narrator
- Execution of Justice1999 · as Harvey Milk
- Missing in Tibet1999 · as Narrator
- Random Hearts1999 · as Cullen Chandler
- Emperor of Hemp1999 · as Narrator
- Murder on Shadow Mountain1999 · as Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
- National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway1999 · as Himself - Narrator
- Last Call1999 · as Xuave
- Patch Adams1998 · as Bill Davis
- Route 91998 · as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
- A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe1998 · as Narrator
- Indiscreet1998 · as Detective Roos
- National Geographic's Storm of the Century1998 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Seeds of Doubt1998
- Titanic: Breaking New Ground1998 · as Narrator
- Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity1998 · as Narrator, English version (voice)
- Sphere1998 · as Captain Harold C. Barnes
- Two for Texas1998 · as Jim Bowie
- San Francisco Diggers1998
- Avalanche: The White Death1998 · as Narrator
- The Secrets of 0071997 · as Narrator (voice)
- Road Ends1997 · as Gene Gere
- Top of the World1997 · as Doc 'The Butcher'
- Murder in My Mind1997 · as Arthur Lefcourt
- Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens1997 · as Narrator
- The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'1996 · as Self
- Terminal Justice1996 · as Deacon Vivyan
- Dalva1996 · as Michael
- Unforgettable1996 · as Don Bresler
- Moonlight and Valentino1995 · as Paul
- That Eye, the Sky1995 · as Henry Warburton
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies1995 · as Narrator
- Buffalo Girls1995 · as Buffalo Bill Cody
- Breach of Conduct1994 · as Col. Andrew Case
- The Peyote Road1994 · as Narrator
- Kika1993 · as Nicholas Pierce
- Earth and the American Dream1992 · as Reader (voice)
- Bitter Moon1992 · as Oscar
- Keeper of the City1991 · as Frank Nordhall
- Living a Lie1991 · as Matt
- Crooked Hearts1991 · as Edward Warren
- High Art1991 · as Peter Mandrake
- A Seduction in Travis County1991 · as Frank Maguire
- The Man Inside1990 · as Henry Tobel
- Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey1990 · as Narrator (voice)
- Poison in the Rockies1990 · as Narrator (voice)
- Unconquered1989 · as Richmond Flowers Sr.
- Heart of Midnight1988 · as Sharpe/Larry
- Baja Oklahoma1988 · as Slick Henderson
- Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America1988 · as Narrator
- Echoes in the Darkness1987 · as William Bradfield Jr.
- A Man in Love1987 · as Steve Elliott
- Sworn to Silence1987 · as Sam Fischetti
- Outrageous Fortune1987 · as Michael Sanders
- Stacking1987 · as The Photographer
- Child's Cry1986 · as Matt Townsend
- The Blue Yonder1985 · as Max Knickerbocker
- Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe1985 · as Narrator (voice)
- Jagged Edge1985 · as Thomas Krasny
- Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats1985 · as Narrator
- The Legend of Billie Jean1985 · as Ringwald
- Scorned and Swindled1984 · as Anthony Ristelli
- Heartbreakers1984 · as Blue
- Best Kept Secrets1984 · as Frank Mitchell
- Slayground1983 · as Stone
- The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?1983 · as Narrator (voice)
- Cross Creek1983 · as Norton Baskin
- Strangers Kiss1983 · as Stanley, the Director
- The UFO Experience1982
- Endangered Species1982 · as Steele
- Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann1982 · as Porter Reese
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial1982 · as Keys
- Breach of Contract1982
- Out1982 · as Rex
- Isabel's Choice1981 · as Wynn Thomas
- Southern Comfort1981 · as Poole
- People vs. Jean Harris1981 · as George Bolen
- Tell Me a Riddle1980 · as Young David
- Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story1980 · as Courtney Taylor
- Die Laughing1980 · as Davis
- The Hippie Temptation1967 · as Digger
- 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
- Lightworkers— · as Self-Interviewee
All TV Shows (62)
- The American Revolution2025 · as Narrator (voice)
- Kennedy2023 · as Narrator (voice)
- The American Buffalo2023 · as Narrator (voice)
- San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time2023 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- La Californie !2023 · as Self - Actor / Activist
- The U.S. and the Holocaust2022 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Benjamin Franklin2022 · as Narrator (voice)
- The Tent Mender2021 · as as Narrator
- Hemingway2021 · as Narrator (voice)
- The Comey Rule2020 · as Robert Mueller
- Helter Skelter: An American Myth2020 · as Self - Actor, Diggers Early Core Member
- Country Music2019 · as Narrator
- The Disappearance2017 · as Henry Sullivan
- The Vietnam War2017 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Spoils Before Dying2015 · as Dizzy the Cat
- The Roosevelts: An Intimate History2014 · as Narrator (voice)
- The Real History of Science Fiction2014 · as Himself
- Intelligence2014 · as Leland Strand
- The Dust Bowl2012 · as Peter Coyote
- Dangerous Waters2012 · as Self
- Perception2012 · as James Alan Pierce
- Prohibition2011 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America2011 · as Self
- Great Migrations2010
- Law & Order: LA2010 · as Jerry Hardin
- Blue Bloods2010 · as Senator Ted McCreary
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea2009 · as Narrator
- FlashForward2009 · as Dave Segovia
- Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League2009 · as Himself - Narrator
- Brothers and Sisters2006 · as Mark August
- Commander in Chief2005 · as Warren Keaton
- Guns Germs & Steel2005 · as Narrator (voice)
- The Inside2005 · as Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury2005 · as Mike LaSalle
- The 44002004 · as Dennis Ryland
- Deadwood2004 · as General Crook
- NCIS2003 · as Ned Quinn
- Founding Brothers2002
- The Color of War2001 · as Narrator
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Lionel Shill
- The Division2001 · as Ross
- Founding Fathers2000 · as John Hancock (voice) / Thomas Jefferson (voice)
- The History of Sex1999 · as Himself - Narrator
- Independent Lens1999
- Rome: Power & Glory1998 · as Narrator
- The West1996 · as Self - Narrator
- Seduced by Madness1996 · as Ruben Borchardt
- 21st Century Jet: The Building of the 7771996 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Cybill1995 · as Roger
- Fallen Angels1993 · as Herman Charn
- The Pacific Century1992 · as Narrator (voice)
- The Simpsons1989 · as Peter Coyote (voice)
- American Experience1988 · as Narrator (voice)
- Echoes in the Darkness1987 · as William Bradfield Jr.
- The Twilight Zone1985 · as (segment "Shadow Play")
- Explorer1985
- Explorer1985 · as Self - Narrator
- Explorer1985 · as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- The Hitchhiker1983 · as Alex Nolan
- Nature1982 · as Narrator (voice)
- Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story1980 · as Courtney Taylor
- The Oscars1953 · as Self