Peter Coyote
Birthday: 1941-10-10 | Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USAPeter 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
Acting
Role
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Sam Donovan
as Narrator (voice)
as Robert Mueller
as Narrator
as Professor
as Henry Sullivan
as Narrator (voice)
as Principal Umber
as Crooker
as Dizzy the Cat
as Dizzy the Cat
as Hank Taylor
as Langley
as Police Chief Williams
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (Voice)
as Maxwell Perkins
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Thomas Morgan
