This article is about the American actor. He is not to be confused with Coyote Peterson.
Peter Coyote
Coyote in 2019
Born
Robert Peter Cohon[1]
(1941-10-10) October 10, 1941 (age 82)
New York City, U.S.
Alma mater
Grinnell College, B.A. 1964 San Francisco State University
Occupations
Actor
director
screenwriter
author
narrator
Years active
1967–present
Spouses
Marilyn McCann
(m. 1975; div. 1998)
[2]
Stefanie Pleet
(m. 1998; div. 2015)
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, theatre, 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]
^Contemporary Authors Online (2002) Gale, Detroit
^"Peter Coyote", Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television Vol. 57 (2004) Gale, Detroit
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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.
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