Peter Coyote
Actor
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
A Walk to Remember
as Reverend Sullivan 2002
Erin Brockovich
as Kurt Potter 2000
Patch Adams
as Bill Davis 1998
Sphere
as Captain Harold C. Barnes 1998
Bitter Moon
as Oscar 1992
Femme Fatale
as Watts 2002
Good Kill
as Langley 2015
Random Hearts
as Cullen Chandler 1999
Southern Comfort
as Poole 1981
Kika
as Nicholas Pierce 1993
Spielberg
as Self 2017
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
as Narrator 2005
Jagged Edge
as Thomas Krasny 1985
Resurrecting the Champ
as Ike Epstein 2007
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
as Uncle Charles 2005
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
as Uncle Charles 2005