
Peter Coyote
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.
23 TV shows
TV Shows

NCIS
CBS

The Simpsons
FOX

Blue Bloods
CBS

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
NBC

American Experience
PBS

Deadwood
HBO

Brothers and Sisters
ABC

The Twilight Zone
CBS

Nature
PBS

The 4400
USA Network

Perception
TNT

Independent Lens
PBS

Law & Order: LA
NBC

Cybill
CBS

FlashForward
ABC

The Hitchhiker
HBO

The Oscars
ABC

Commander in Chief
ABC

The American Revolution
PBS

Fallen Angels
Showtime

Law & Order: Trial by Jury
NBC

The Vietnam War
PBS

The National Parks: America's Best Idea
PBS
Other Credits
The Division, The Inside, Explorer, Hemingway, The History of Sex, Rome: Power & Glory, Seduced by Madness, The West, The U.S. and the Holocaust, Intelligence, The Tent Mender, La Californie !, Benjamin Franklin, The Disappearance, Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, The Spoils Before Dying, The Dust Bowl, Great Migrations, Prohibition, Kennedy, Helter Skelter: An American Myth, Guns Germs & Steel, The American Buffalo, Dangerous Waters, Founding Fathers, The Color of War, Country Music, Founding Brothers, Echoes in the Darkness, Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story, The Real History of Science Fiction, The Comey Rule, 21st Century Jet: The Building of the 777, The Pacific Century, On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America, San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time