Peter Coyote movies

Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon October 10, 1941) is an American actor and author. He has acted in over 70 films and has narrated many documentaries and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He has also served as an announcer during Oscar telecasts.He is the cofounder, with Emmett Grogan, of the San Francisco Diggers and a veteran of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

Coyote became a member, and later chairman, of the California State 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.BiographyEarly yearsCoyote was born in Colver, Pennsylvania to Morris Cohon (a businessman of Sephardic Jewish descent) and Ruth Fidler (who came from a middle-class Jewish family). After graduating from Grinnell College with a BA in English Literature in 1964, and despite having been accepted at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Peter Coyote moved to the West Coast where he studied in the Masters Degree in Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.Counter-cultural activitiesAfter a short apprenticeship at the San Francisco Actors Workshop, he joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a radical political street theater whose members were arrested for performing in parks without permits. Coyote acted, wrote scripts, and directed in the Mime Troupe. He directed the first cross-country tour of The Minstrel Show, Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel, a controversial play closed by authorities in several cities.

Peter Coyote Movies

All movies starring Peter Coyote.

• A Little Trip to Heaven
• A Walk to Remember
• Behind Enemy Lines: Axis of Evil
• Bitter Moon
• Deepwater
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Femme Fatale
• Patch Adams
• Resurrecting the Champ