Peter coyote voice series#

While a student at Grinnell College, Iowa in 1961, Coyote was one of the organizers of a group of twelve students who traveled to Washington, D.C. Coyote is prominent librarian Jessamyn West's maternal uncle. Coyote later said that he was 'half black and half white inside' due to the strong influence of Susie Nelson, his family's African-American housekeeper. He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey and graduated from the Dwight Morrow High School there in 1960. Coyote 'was raised in a highly intellectual, cultural but unreligious family', involved in left-wing politics. Her father, trained as a rabbi in Russia, escaped being drafted into the Imperial Russian Army, and eventually ran a small candy store in the Bronx. His father was of Sephardic Jewish descent and his mother came from a working-class Ashkenazi Jewish family. He speaks fluent Spanish and French.Ĭoyote was born in New York City, the son of Ruth (née Fidler) and Morris Cohon, an investment banker. In the 1990s and 2000s (decade), he acted in several television shows. In the late 1970s, he shifted from acting on stage to acting in films. Coyote became a member, and later chairman, of the California Arts Council from 1975 to 1983. He acted in and directed the first cross-country tour of The Minstrel Show, and his play Olive Pits, co-authored with Mime Troupe member Peter Berg, won the troupe an Obie Award from the Village Voice. Coyote was also an actor, writer and director with the San Francisco Mime Troupe his prominence in the San Francisco counterculture scene led to his being interviewed for the book Voices from the Love Generation. He has often been compared with actor Henry Fonda.Ĭoyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2015 for his work on The Roosevelts.

Peter coyote voice series#

He narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century (1992), winning an Emmy, and the Ken Burns' documentaries The Roosevelts (2014) and The Vietnam War (2017). Coyote's voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad Retina Display campaign.