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Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Highest Rated: 100% Tell Me A Riddle (1980)

Lowest Rated: 0% Written in Blood (2002)

Birthday: Oct 10, 1941

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Actor Peter Coyote has made a career playing dark, seductive, often intellectually complex characters and has used his distinctive voice to narrate numerous documentary programs. As a leading man and screen villain, Coyote is best recalled as the object of the competition between Shelley Long and Bette Midler in "Outrageous Fortune" (1987) and as the emotionally abusive expatriate in Roman Polanski's "Bitter Moon" (1994), a role considered by some to be based on Polanski himself.

Highest rated movies

100% Tell Me A Riddle
99% E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
86% The Price of Fame
85% Erin Brockovich
81% Jagged Edge
80% Heartbreakers
78% Southern Comfort
77% Bon Voyage

Photos

UNFORGETTABLE, Linda Fiorentino, Ray Liotta, Peter Coyote, 1996, © MGM / COMMUNE, Peter Coyote, 2005. (c) Five Points Media CROSS CREEK, Peter Coyote, Mary Steenburgen, 1983, (c) MCA Universal UNFORGETTABLE, Linda Fiorentino, Ray Liotta, Peter Coyote, 1996.©MGM THE BASKET, Peter Coyote, 1999, ©MGM UNFORGETTABLE, Peter Coyote, 1996.©MGM HEARTBREAKERS, Peter Coyote, 1984, (c)Orion Pictures Corporation A MAN IN LOVE, (aka UN HOMME AMOUREUX), Peter Coyote, Jamie Lee Curtis, 1987, (c) Cinecom Pictures TIMERIDER: THE ADVENTURE OF LYLE SWANN, Peter Coyote, Tracey Walter, Richard Masur, 1982, (c)Jensen Farley Pictures THE BASKET, Peter Coyote (far right), 1999, ©MGM SLAYGROUND, Peter Coyote, 1983, TM and copyright ©Universal Film Corp. All rights reserved SLAYGROUND, Peter Coyote, 1983, TM and copyright ©Universal Film Corp. All rights reserved BITTER MOON, Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, 1992 A MAN IN LOVE, (aka UN HOMME AMOUREUX), Greta Scacchi, Peter Coyote, 1987, (c)Cinecom Pictures HEARTBREAKERS, Peter Coyote, Carol Wayne, 1984, (c)Orion Pictures BITTER MOON, Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, 1992, (c)Fine Line Features BITTER MOON, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote, 1992, (c)Fine Line Features THE BASKET, Peter Coyote, 1999. ©MGM ERIN BROCKOVICH, Peter Coyote, Veanne Cox, 2000, (c)Universal JAGGED EDGE, Glenn Close, Peter Coyote, 1985
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% 91% Bad Faith Narrator - 2024
92% 93% Against All Enemies Narrator - 2023
No Score Yet 89% Moment of Contact Narrator,
Self 		- 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Stand Narrator - 2022
40% 93% The Girl Who Believes in Miracles Sam Donovan (Character) $3.1M 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet San Francisco Stories Narrator (Character) - 2021
88% 93% The Phenomenon Narrator - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Real Activist Unknown (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Almost Thirteen Narrator - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet And Now, Love Narrator - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet As if They Were Angels Narrator - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey Narrator - 2018
70% 75% The Etruscan Smile Professor (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Remarkable Life of John Weld Narrator - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Saving Atlantis Unknown (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 63% 1 Mile to You Principal Umber (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Americana Ben (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet No Deposit Police Chief Williams (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 43% Girl on the Edge Hank Taylor (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Eva & Leon Le Père D'eva (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Realm of the Ancient Redwoods Unknown (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Changing Boundaries: The History of San Jose Narrator - 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Coup in Camelot Narrator - 2014
86% 29% The Price of Fame John Crooker (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Walking in Two Worlds Narrator - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Angel Azul Narrator - 2013
No Score Yet 74% The Ghost Army Narrator - 2013
49% 41% Hemingway & Gellhorn Maxwell Perkins (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pretty Slick Narrator - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Valparaiso Edward G. Drexler (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 34% This Is Not a Movie Unknown (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 25% The Gundown Thomas Morgan (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology Unknown (Character) - 2011
36% 46% Connected Narrator $13.3K 2011
No Score Yet 11% Didi Hollywood Unknown (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet 100% Cut Poison Burn Narrator - 2010
No Score Yet 9% Last Will Judge Garner (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Di Di Hollywood Michael McLean (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 100% What If Cannabis Cured Cancer? Narrator - 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Call of Life Narrator - 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Huxley on Huxley Narrator - 2009
No Score Yet 40% A Single Woman Maury Maverick (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 75% Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story Elliot Arthur (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 49% Five Dollars a Day Bert Kruger (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 76% Adopt a Sailor Richard (Character) - 2008
17% 56% All Roads Lead Home Hock Banyon (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 45% Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief President Sterling (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony Narrator - 2008
61% 60% Resurrecting the Champ Epstein (Character) $3.2M 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sunday Man The Voice (Character) - 2007
0% 37% Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil President Adair T. Manning (Character) - 2006
54% 73% Stealing America: Vote by Vote Narrator $2.9K 2006
74% 80% A/K/A Tommy Chong Unknown (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Apparent Horizon Joseph (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet About Face: The Story of the Jewish Refugee Soldiers of World War II Narrator - 2005
No Score Yet 16% Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave Uncle Charles (Character) - 2005
33% 41% A Little Trip to Heaven Frank (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 33% Deepwater Finch (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 16% Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis Uncle Charles (Character) - 2005
97% 87% Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Narrator $4.1M 2005
No Score Yet 3% Shadow of Fear Congressman Henderson (Character) - 2004
61% 50% The Grand Role Rudolph Grichenberg (Character) $35.6K 2004
50% 64% The Hebrew Hammer J.J.L. Chief (Character) $19.5K 2003
77% 75% Bon Voyage Alex Winckler (Character) $2.4M 2003
57% 66% Northfork Eddie (Character) $1.4M 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perfect Crimes Unknown (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Phenomenon II John Ringold (Character) - 2003
0% 16% Written in Blood John Traveller (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 55% Purpose Bernard Elias (Character) - 2002
49% 49% Femme Fatale Watts (Character) $6.6M 2002
100% 82% Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election Narrator - 2002
29% 78% A Walk to Remember Reverend Sullivan (Character) $41.2M 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Founding Brothers Thomas Jefferson (Voice) - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jack the Dog Alfred Stieglitz (Character) - 2001
50% 63% Suddenly Naked Lionel Heathcote (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Midwives Stephen Hastings (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 57% More Dogs Than Bones Detective Darren Cody (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 18% Red Letters Dennis Burke (Character) - 2000
85% 81% Erin Brockovich Kurt Potter (Character) $125.5M 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wednesday Woman Don Wigulow (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 75% A Time for Dancing Wyn Michaels (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call Xuave (Character) - 1999
44% 23% The Basket Martin Conlon (Character) $609.0K 1999
18% 24% Random Hearts Cullen Chandler (Character) $31.1M 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Murder on Shadow Mountain Dennis "Denny" Traynor (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Execution of Justice Harvey Milk (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 67% Emperor of Hemp Narrator - 1999
No Score Yet 60% Two for Texas Jim Bowie (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 14% Top of the World Doc "The Butcher" (Character) - 1998
21% 73% Patch Adams Bill Davis (Character) $135.0M 1998
No Score Yet 44% Route 9 Sheriff Dwayne Hogan (Character) - 1998
13% 38% Sphere Captain Harold C. Barnes (Character) $37.0M 1998
No Score Yet 43% Indiscreet Detective Roos (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 20% Road Ends Gene Gere (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder in My Mind Arthur Lefcourt (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Third Mind Narrator - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Seeds of Doubt Police Lt. Henry Dexter (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dalva Michael (Character) - 1996
24% 49% Unforgettable Don Bresler (Character) $2.5M 1996
No Score Yet 68% Buffalo Girls Buffalo Bill Cody (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 33% Terminal Justice Deacon Vivyan (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet That Eye, the Sky Henry Warburton (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Breach of Conduct Col. Andrew Case (Character) - 1994
59% 71% Kika Nicholas (Character) $423.5K 1993
63% 80% Bitter Moon Oscar (Character) $1.8M 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Keeper of the City Frank Nordhall (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 47% Exposure Peter Mandrake (Character) $23.3K 1991
No Score Yet 38% Crooked Hearts Edward (Character) $21.6K 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Living a Lie Matt (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Seduction in Travis County Frank Maguire (Character) - 1991
13% No Score Yet The Man Inside Henry Tobel (Character) $30.5K 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey Narrator - 1990
No Score Yet 35% Heart of Midnight Sharpe/Larry (Character) $71.1K 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Unconquered Richmond Flowers Sr. (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 70% Baja Oklahoma Slick Henderson (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sworn to Silence Sam Fischetti (Character) - 1987
58% 60% Outrageous Fortune Michael Sanders (Character) $52.8M 1987
50% 57% A Man in Love Steve Elliott (Character) $25.6K 1987
No Score Yet 83% Echoes in the Darkness William Bradfield Jr. (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Child's Cry Matt Townsend (Character) - 1986
81% 59% Jagged Edge Thomas Krasny (Character) $36.9M 1985
39% 75% The Legend of Billie Jean Ringwald (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 50% Time Flyer Max Knickerbocker (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Best Kept Secrets Frank Mitchell (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 9% Slayground Stone (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Scorned and Swindled Anthony Ristelli (Character) - 1984
80% 53% Heartbreakers Blue (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Strangers Kiss Stanley (Character) - 1983
59% 76% Cross Creek Norton Baskin (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 44% Time Rider Unknown (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deadly Drifter Rex (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 28% Timerider Porter Reese (Character) - 1982
99% 72% E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Keys (Character) $439.2M 1982
No Score Yet 34% Endangered Species Steele (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Breach of Contract Unknown (Character) - 1982
78% 75% Southern Comfort Poole (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The People vs. Jean Harris George Bolen (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Isabel's Choice Wynn Thomas (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Die Laughing Davis (Character) - 1980
100% 60% Tell Me A Riddle Unknown (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story Courtney Taylor (Character) - 1980

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 100% Kennedy Narrator 2023
85% 77% The Simpsons Self (Guest Voice) 2023
100% 100% The American Buffalo Self 2023
100% 85% The U.S. and the Holocaust Narrator 2022
78% 85% Benjamin Franklin Narrator 2022
66% 66% The Comey Rule Robert Mueller (Character) 2020
88% 97% Country Music Narrator 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Disappearance Henry Sullivan (Character) 2017
96% 95% The Vietnam War Narrator 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Natural Heroes Narrator 2016
No Score Yet 80% Blue Bloods Unknown (Guest Star) 2015
No Score Yet 85% Perception Unknown (Guest Star) 2014-2015
100% 94% The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Narrator 2014
38% 60% Intelligence Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The National Parks: America's Best Idea Narrator 2009 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Prohibition Narrator 2011
59% 56% Law & Order: LA Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Explorer Unknown (Voice),
Narrator 		2010
80% 78% FlashForward President Dave Segovia (Guest Star) 2009-2010
No Score Yet 83% NCIS Ned Quinn (Guest Star) 2008
No Score Yet 71% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Lionel Shill (Guest Star) 2007
79% 84% Brothers & Sisters Mark August (Guest Star) 2007
82% No Score Yet Commander in Chief Warren Keaton (Guest Star) 2005-2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Inside Supervisory Agent Virgil "Web" Webster (Character) 2005
No Score Yet No Score Yet Law & Order: Trial by Jury Unknown (Guest Star) 2005
95% 87% The 4400 Unknown (Character) 2004
92% 96% Deadwood Gen. Crook (Guest Star) 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Color of War Narrator 2001-2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Living Edens Narrator 1997 1999 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson (Character) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet The History of Sex Narrator 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rome: Power & Glory Narrator 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cybill Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fallen Angels Herman Charn (Character) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Buffalo Girls Buffalo Bill Cody (Character) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Hitchhiker Unknown (Character) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Guns, Germs and Steel Unknown (Character)