Peter Coyote
Birthplace: Manhattan
Born: 1941-10-10
Occupations recorded in source
actor; writer
Biography from Wikipedia
Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, author, and narrator of films, theater, television, and audiobooks. He is known for his appearances in films such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Bitter Moon (1992), Kika (1993), Patch Adams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002), and Femme Fatale (2002).
His voice work includes his narration for the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century (1992), winning an Emmy. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2015 for his work on Ken Burns's documentary miniseries The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s, including the Summer of Love.
Sources & attribution
Wikidata · revision
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021) — Sam Donovan
- The Etruscan Smile (2018) — Professor
- Girl on the Edge (2015) — Hank Taylor
- No Deposit (2015) — Police Chief Williams
- On a marché sur Bangkok (2014) — Burt Lowell
- Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) — Maxwell Perkins
- Prohibition (2011)
- Stage Left (2011)
- The Gundown (2011) — Thomas Morgan
- These Amazing Shadows (2011) — er selbst
- Di Di Hollywood (2010) — Michael McLean
- This Is Not a Movie (2010)
- The Harimaya Bridge (2009) — Albert Tunney
- A Single Woman (2008)
- All Roads Lead Home (2008) — Hock
- Dr. Dolittle - Tail To The Chief (2008) — Präsident Sterling
- Five Dollars a Day (2008) — Burt Kruger
- The Lena Baker Story (2008)
- Resurrecting the Champ (2007) — Ike Epstein
- Strange Culture (2007)
- Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006) — President Adair T. Manning
- A Little Trip to Heaven (2005) — Frank
- Deepwater (2005) — Herman Finch
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
- Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005) — Charles Garrison
- Shadow of Fear (2004) — Congressman Henderson
- Northfork (2003) — Eddie
- Out of the Blue (2003)
- The Hebrew Hammer (2003) — JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
- A Time For Dancing (2002) — Wynn,William
- A Walk to Remember (2002) — Reverend Sullivan
- Femme Fatale (2002) — Watts
- Purpose (2002) — Bernard Elias
- Jack the Dog (2001)
- Suddenly Naked (2001)
- Erin Brockovich (2000) — Kurt Potter
- Red Letters (2000) — Dennis Burke
- Last Call (1999)
- Patch Adams (1998) — Bill Davis
- Route 9 (1998) — Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
Frequent collaborators
Shared films in this catalogue.
- Robert Loggia · 3 films
- Samuel L. Jackson · 3 films
- Calvin Green · 2 films
- Chris Sarandon · 2 films
- Christopher McDonald · 2 films
- Daryl Hannah · 2 films
Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.