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Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audiobooks. ... He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2015 for his work on The Roosevelts.

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Filmography

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

1982
as Keys

A Walk to Remember

2002
as Reverend Sullivan

Erin Brockovich

2000
as Kurt Potter

FlashForward

2009
as President Dave Segovia

The 4400

2004
as Dennis Ryland

Patch Adams

1998
as Bill Davis

Deadly Drifter

1982
as Rex

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

1982
as Porter Reese

Cross Creek

1983
as Norton Baskin

The People vs. Jean Harris

1981
as George Bolen

Phenomenon II

2003
as John Ringold

Here

2011
as Storyteller

Summer of Love

2007
as Himself

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995
as Narrator

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

1990
as Self - Narrator

The Dust Bowl

2012
as Narrator

Outrageous Fortune

1987
as Michael Sanders

Un homme amoureux

1987
as Steve Elliott

coup in camelot

2015
as Narrator

Unconquered

1989
as Richmond Flowers Sr.

Good Kill

2015
as Langley

The Etruscan Smile

2018
as Professor

Femme Fatale

2002
as Watts

Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology

2011
as Narrator (voice)

The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple

2017
as Himself - Narrator

Karmapa - jumaluuden kaksi tietä

1998
as Peter Coyote

Suddenly Naked

2001
as Lionel Heathcote

Oil on Ice

2004
as Narrator

24 Hours After Hiroshima

2010
as Narrator

The Basket

2000
as Martin Conlon

Midwives

2001
as Stephen Hastings

Die Laughing

1980

Seeds of Doubt

1998
as Police Lt. Henry Dexter

Journey to Europa

2012
as Self

Last Call

1999
as Xuave

Two for Texas

1998
as Jim Bowie

The Gundown

2011
as Thomas Morgan

A Time for Dancing

2002
as Wyn Michaels

Deepwater

2005
as Herman Finch

The U.S. and the Holocaust

2022
as Narrator

Indiscreet

1998
as Detective Roos

The Color of War

2001

On a marché sur Bangkok

2014
as Burt Lowell

Exposure

1991
as Peter Mandrake

The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files

1997
as Narrator

Earth and the American Dream

1992
as Reader

Isabel's Choice

1981
as Wynn Thomas

Endangered Species

1982
as Steele

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

2013
as Himself

Breach of Conduct

1994
as Col. Andrew Case

Moonlight and Valentino

1995
as Paul

Huxley on Huxley

2009
as Narrator

Hemingway

2021
as Narrator

Jagged Edge

1985
as Thomas Krasny

Country Music

2019
as Narrator

Le grand rôle

2004
as Rudolph Grichenberg

Dalva

1996
as Michael

Route 9

1998
as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan

Random Hearts

1999
as Cullen Chandler

a/k/a Tommy Chong

2006
as Himself

A Little Trip to Heaven

2005
as Frank

Spielberg

2017
as Himself

Hippies

2007
as Peter Coyote

Road Ends

1997
as Gene Gere

Written in Blood

2003
as John Traveller

Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.

2016
as Peter Coyote

Les Diggers De San Francisco

1998
as Peter Coyote

Benjamin Franklin (2022)

2022
as Narrator

Right to Play

2012
as Narrator

The Sacramento River of Life

2020
as Narrator

Stacking

1987
as Photographer

Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis

2005
as Uncle Charles

Rome: Power & Glory

1999
as Narrator

Scorned and Swindled

1984
as Anthony Ristelli

Slayground

1983
as Stone

Southern Comfort

1981
as Poole

Purpose

2002
as Bernard Elias

Di Di Hollywood

2010
as Michael Stein

Red Letters

2000
as Dennis Burke

Eva & Leon

2015
as Le Père

The Inside

2005
as Virgil "Web" Webster

Act of Will

1989
as Miles Sutherland

The West

1996
as Narrator

Berkeley

2005
as Narrator (voice)

The Wednesday Woman

2000
as Don Wigulow

Strangers Kiss

1983
as Stanley, the Director

Last Will

2011
as Judge Garner

Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

2015
as Peter Coyote

That Eye, the Sky

1995
as Henry Warburton

We Are As Gods

2020
as Peter Coyote

Unforgettable

1996
as Don Bresler

Murder in My Mind

1997
as Arthur Lefcourt

The Mayo Clinic

2018
as Narrator

Dirty Gold War

2015
as Narrator

Strange Culture

2007
as Himself

Avalanche: The White Death

1998
as Narrator

Best Kept Secrets

1984
as Frank Mitchell

Sworn to Silence

1987
as Sam Fischetti

Fog City Mavericks

2007
as Peter Coyote

These Amazing Shadows

2011
as himself

The Reality of Truth

2016
as Peter Coyote

Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction

2010
as Narrator

Keeper of the City

1991
as Frank Nordhall

Execution of Justice

1999
as Harvey Milk

The Gospel of Judas

2006
as Narrator

I am Fishead

2011
as narrator

Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72

2012
as Narrator

Kika

1993
as Nicholas

Top of the World

1998
as Doc 'The Butcher'

One Man, One Cow, One Planet

2007
as Narrator

The Blue Yonder

1985
as Max Knickerbocker

Search for the Submarine I-52

2000
as Narrator

Valparaiso

as Edward G. Drexler

Sphere

1998
as Captain Harold C. Barnes

Bay Area Revelations

2015
as Narrator

Echoes In The Darkness

1987
as William Bradfield Jr.

Bon voyage

2003
as Alex Winckler

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave

2005
as Uncle Charles

The Disappearance (2017)

2017
as Henry Sullivan

Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief

2008
as President Sterling

Americana

2016
as Ben

Still Missing

1999
as Self - Narrator

Commune

2005
as Peter Coyote

La Rançon de la gloire

2015
as Crooker

The Hippie Temptation

1967
as The Diggers

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

2005
as Narrator

Northfork

2003
as Eddie

What If Cannabis Cured Cancer

2010
as Narration

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats

1985
as Narrator

The Hebrew Hammer

2003
as JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal

Edit Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco

2011
as Peter Coyote

Angel Azul

2014
as Narrator

The Legend of Billie Jean

1985
as Lt. Larry Ringwald

The Man Inside

1991
as Henry Tobel

The Tribe

2005
as Voice

The Pacific Century

as Narrator

1 Mile To You

2017
as Principal Umber

The Remarkable Life of John Weld

2018
as Narrator

Explorer

1985
as Narrator

Alaska Far Away

2008
as Narrator

No Deposit

2015
as Police Chief Williams

21st Century Jet

as Narrator

$5 a Day

2008

Terminal Justice

1996
as Deacon Vivyan

Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story

2008
as Elliot Arthur

Tell Me a Riddle

1980
as Young David

Heartbreakers

1984
as Blue

Stealing America: Vote by Vote

2008
as Peter Coyote

Bitter Moon

1992
as Oscar

All Roads Lead Home

2008
as Hock

This Is Not a Movie

2011

The UFO Experience

1982

Heart of Midnight

1988
as Sharpe/Larry

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil

2006
as President Adair T. Manning

The History of Sex

1999

Girl on the Edge

2015
as Hank Taylor

Baja Oklahoma

1988
as Slick Henderson

Soldiers Of Conscience

2007
as Narrator

Crooked Hearts

1991
as Edward

The Girl Who Believes in Miracles

2021
as Sam Donovan

Rise Above the Mark

2014

More Dogs Than Bones

2000
as Detective Darren Cody

Adopt a Sailor

2008
as Richard

Emperor of Hemp

1999
as Narrator

Child's Cry

1986
as Matt Townsend

Shadow of Fear

2004
as Congressman Henderson

Texas Gold

2005
as Narrator

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story

1980
as Courtney Taylor

The Ghost Army

2013
as Narrator (Voice)

Guest Star

Episode The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Great Nature (1933–1945) 		2009
Episode The National Parks: America's Best Idea
The Morning of Creation (1946–1980) 		2009
Episode Fallen Angels
The Professional Man 		1995
Episode Nature
Oceans in Glass: Behind the Scenes of the Monterey Bay Aquarium 		2006
Episode Nature
The Vanishing Lions 		2006
Episode Road to Avonlea
Old Quarrels, Old Love 		1990
Episode Shark Week
Future Shark 		2000
Episode Explorer
Inside LSD 		2009
Episode Deadwood
Sold Under Sin 		2004
Episode American Experience
Hoover Dam 		1999
Episode Brothers & Sisters
Bad News 		2007
Episode The 4400
Fifty-Fifty 		2006
Episode The Insiders
All This and the Old School Tie 		1985
Episode Intelligence (2014)
Rescue 		2014
Episode Commander In Chief
The Price You Pay 		2006
Episode Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Self-Made 		2007
Episode National Geographic: Nature Untamed
Python Wars 		1970
Episode Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Forty-One Shots 		2005
Episode Prohibition
A Nation of Drunkards 		2011
Episode Perception
Shiver 		2014
Episode The Color of War
Face to Face 		2001
Episode The War of 1812
The Battle of New Orleans 		1970
Episode Prohibition
A Nation of Scofflaws 		2011
Episode American Experience
Edison's Miracle of Light 		1995
Episode The Color of War
Battleground 		2001
Episode Prohibition
A Nation of Hypocrites 		2011
Episode Brothers & Sisters
Grapes of Wrath 		2007
Episode Perception
Dirty (1) 		2014
Episode The Color of War
Air War 		2001
Episode Cybill
The Love of Her Life 		1997
Episode The 4400
The New World (2) 		2006
Episode PBS Specials
The Ghost Army 		2013
Episode Lost
Revelations 		2006
Episode The Color of War
Into the Breach 		2001
Episode Frontier: The Decisive Battles
Battle for King's Mountain 		2000
Episode NCIS
Silent Night 		2008
Episode Commander In Chief
Ties That Bind 		2006
Episode Frontier: The Decisive Battles
Battle for New Orleans 		2000
Episode Lost
Destination Lost 		2005
Episode The Color of War
At Ease 		2001
Episode Brothers & Sisters
All in the Family 		2007
Episode Intelligence (2014)
The Event Horizon 		2014
Episode Perception
Eternity 		2014
Episode The National Parks: America's Best Idea
The Scripture of Nature (1851–1890) 		2009
Episode Intelligence (2014)
Being Human 		2014
Episode The National Parks: America's Best Idea
The Last Refuge (1890–1915) 		2009
Episode The Twilight Zone (1985)
Shadow Play 		1986
Episode Brothers & Sisters
Three Parties 		2007
Episode Ken Burns Films
The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science 		2018
Episode The National Parks: America's Best Idea
The Empire of Grandeur (1915–1919) 		2009
Episode The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Going Home (1920–1933) 		2009