Peter Coyote | |
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 Coyote in 2019 | |
| Born | Robert Peter Cohon[1] October 10, 1941 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Grinnell College, B.A. 1964 San Francisco State University |
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| Years active | 1967–present |
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| Children | 2 |
| Website | petercoyote.com |
Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, author, and narrator of films, theater, television, and audiobooks. He worked on films, such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Bitter Moon (1992), Kika (1993), Patch Adams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002), and Femme Fatale (2002).
His voice work includes his narration for the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century (1992), winning an Emmy. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2015 for his work on Ken Burns's documentary miniseries The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.[3]
Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s, including the Summer of Love.[4][5]
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- ^ "Peter Coyote's Biography". redroom. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2012.
- ^ "Spring 2004 Newsletter". petercoyote.com. Archived from the original on December 20, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2012.