
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.
216
Films
61
TV Shows
Known For
277 Credits
The Simpsons
as Peter Coyote (voice)
1989

NCIS
as Ned Quinn
2003

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Lionel Shill
2001

Blue Bloods
as Senator Ted McCreary
2010

Nature
as Narrator (voice)
1982

American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988

The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Shadow Play")
1985

The 4400
as Dennis Ryland
2004

Brothers and Sisters
as Mark August
2006

Deadwood
as General Crook
2004

The Division
as Ross
2001

Perception
as James Alan Pierce
2012