Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote
Birth Name: Peter Cohon
Born: Oct 10, 1942
Colver, PA
Career: 1980-2009
Countries: USA
Genre/Type: Drama
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Biography by Hal Erickson
There are several theories as to why Peter Cohon chose the stage name of Peter Coyote; for his part, the actor is reluctant to discuss an event that apparently was the end result of an evening's experimentation with controlled substances. In the late 1960s, Coyote quit his job as a dockworker to "turn on, tune in and drop out." With hair so long that he could sit on it (by his own admission), Coyote was a "fringie" with such varied organizations as the Grateful Dead and the Hell's Angels, and also worked for a while with a guerilla mime group. After years of deprivation, Coyote dropped back into society in 1975, accepting a job as a drama teacher at a public school. Rapidly approaching middle age, Coyote entered films with 1980's Die Laughing. Throughout the 1980s, he alternated between good guys, villains, and a vaguely defined stereotype known as "loser boyfriends." As the vengeful public prosecutor in The Jagged Edge (1985), Coyote turns out not to be the film's principal heavy; even so, we leave the picture disliking his character more than anyone else's. Leading roles came his way in such films as Exposure (1991), but even here he could not completely escape an aura of slime (his ostensibly heroic character burrows through the seamy underside of Rio in search of a prostitute's murderer). One of Coyote's few unconditionally "nice" roles was as the enigmatic scientist Keys in the champion moneymaker E.T. (1982). In the late 1990s, Coyote published Sleeping Where I Fall, a candid memoir of his years as a cultural drop out.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Beef State 2009 Voice [Starring]
Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators 2009 Voice [Starring]
National Geographic: Inside Guantanamo 2009 Voice [Starring]
The National Parks: America's Best Idea [TV Documentary Series] 2009 Voice [Starring]
$5 a Day 2008 Actor [Starring]
Adopt a Sailor 2008 Actor [Starring]
All Roads Lead Home 2008 Actor [Starring]
Brain Fitness²: Sight & Sound 2008 Participant [Starring]
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief 2008 Actor [Starring]
Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine 2008 Voice [Starring]
National Geographic: Guns in America 2008 Voice [Starring]
Stealing America: Vote by Vote 2008 Voice [Starring]
Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco 2007 Voice [Starring]
One Man, One Cow, One Planet 2007 Voice [Starring]
Soldiers of Conscience 2007 Voice [Starring]
The Brain Fitness Program 2007 Voice [Starring]
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Peter is a friend of a friend; when he heard about the film he said that he'd do it right away. We sent the narration to the studio and he just read it straight for the first time ever and then he left it like that. It's unbelievable. Appar...
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