
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.

The Simpsons
TV • 1989

NCIS
TV • 2003

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001

Blue Bloods
TV • 2010

Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006

The Division
TV • 2001

American Experience
TV • 1988

The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985

The Oscars
TV • 1953

Nature
TV • 1982

The 4400
TV • 2004

Perception
TV • 2012

Deadwood
TV • 2004

Law & Order: LA
TV • 2010

FlashForward
TV • 2009

Cybill
TV • 1995

The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983

Independent Lens
TV • 1999