As of July 2026, Peter Coyote is best known for Nature and American Experience. Find every show and movie Peter Coyote has starred in — and where to watch them — below.
Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Actor Born 1941 New York City, New York, USA 12 TV Shows 8 Movies

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.

Alongside acting, Peter Coyote is also known as a director, writer, screenwriter.

Peter Coyote's most notable role to date came in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), where he played Keys. He also appeared in A Walk to Remember (2002) as Reverend Sullivan. Most recently appeared in Erin Brockovich (2000) as Kurt Potter.

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📺 Peter Coyote's TV Shows

Nature
Narrator (voice)
1982
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
1988
The 4400
Dennis Ryland
2004
The Division
Ross
2001
Brothers and Sisters
Mark August
2006
Perception
James Alan Pierce
2012
Independent Lens
1999
FlashForward
Dave Segovia
2009
Law & Order: LA
Jerry Hardin
2010
Commander in Chief
Warren Keaton
2005
The Disappearance
Henry Sullivan
2017
The American Revolution
Narrator (voice)
2025

🎬 Peter Coyote's Movies

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Keys
1982
A Walk to Remember
Reverend Sullivan
2002
Femme Fatale
Watts
2002
Erin Brockovich
Kurt Potter
2000
Patch Adams
Bill Davis
1998
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Maxwell Perkins
2012
Northfork
Eddie
2003
Bitter Moon
Oscar
1992

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