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Acting

Peter Coyote

Career: Active from 1967 to 2026, with a break from 1968 to 1979, with up to 9 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 162
top three billing

Average score: 57/100

Highest rated: The Phenomenon
91/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 117 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Peter Coyote Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7
Situational Comedy
1.8, average 2.7
Physical Comedy
1.4, average 2.4
Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 14
Character-Driven 11
Educational & Informative 7
Moral Ambiguity 6
Historical Documentary 6
Psychological Thriller 6
Neo-Noir Thriller 4
Courtroom Drama 4
Psychological Tension 4
Intrigue 4
American History 4
Family Drama 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

244

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

3 titles

Huichols and Pesticides

as Narrator (voice)

Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut

as Narrator

Hayden's Corner

as Narrator (voice)

2020s

30 titles · average score 74

The American Revolution

76

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters

72

as Narrator (voice)

Bad Faith

86

as Narrator (voice)

The Program

65

as Narrator (voice)

The American Buffalo

86

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Kennedy

61

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Against All Enemies

71

as Narrator

Benjamin Franklin

78

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Moment of Contact

74

as Narrator (voice)

Hemingway

83

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

The Girl Who Believes in Miracles

53

as Sam Donovan

The Phenomenon

91

as Narrator (voice)

2010s

47 titles · average score 59

Country Music

84

TV show · as Narrator

Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey

as narrator

The Disappearance

69

TV show · as Henry Sullivan

No Deposit

39

as Police Chief Williams

The Price of Fame

66

as Crooker

Girl on the Edge

52

as Hank Taylor

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

89

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

The Dust Bowl

80

TV show · as Peter Coyote

Here

63

as Storyteller

Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology

36

as Narrator (voice)

The Gundown

38

as Thomas Morgan

DiDi Hollywood

35

as Michael McLean

2000s

74 titles · average score 56

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

82

TV show · as Narrator

Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief

44

as President Sterling

All Roads Lead Home

37

as Hock

The Inside

50

TV show · as Special Agent Virgil "Web" Webster

A Little Trip to Heaven

42

as Frank

Guns Germs & Steel

70

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Deepwater

45

as Herman Finch

A Walk to Remember

52

as Reverend Sullivan

Femme Fatale

57

as Watts

Founding Brothers

TV show

A Time for Dancing

66

as Wyn Michaels

The Color of War

TV show · as Narrator

1990s

48 titles · average score 52

Independent Lens

49

TV show

Sphere

39

as Captain Harold C. Barnes

Route 9

60

as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan

Road Ends

39

as Gene Gere

Unforgettable

41

as Don Bresler

Seduced by Madness

58

TV show · as Ruben Borchardt

Dalva

as Michael

Terminal Justice

41

as Deacon Vivyan

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

78

as Narrator

Kika

60

as Nicholas Pierce

Bitter Moon

67

as Oscar

High Art

52

as Peter Mandrake

1980s

41 titles · average score 63

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Peter Coyote (voice)

Unconquered

as Richmond Flowers Sr.

Outrageous Fortune

51

as Michael Sanders

Echoes in the Darkness

68

TV show · as William Bradfield Jr.

A Man in Love

52

as Steve Elliott

Echoes in the Darkness

76

as William Bradfield Jr.

Jagged Edge

66

as Thomas Krasny

Slayground

38

as Stone

Cross Creek

65

as Norton Baskin

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

86

as Keys

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

46

as Porter Reese

Out

37

as Rex

1960s

1 title

The Hippie Temptation

as Digger