Biography
Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts. Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s. Coyote was also a...
Known For
Complete Filmography

O Mother Gaia: The World of Gary Snyder
2025
as Self
The first feature-length film documenting the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Gary Snyder. A participant in the famed 1955 Six G...

The Program
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Explores the unprecedented bipartisan congressional effort to uncover what intelligence agencies really know about UFOs, now referred to as UAP.

Good Men
2024
as Self
After the birth of his grandson, Bobby Roth undertakes a cinematic investigation as to what constitutes being a "good man" in today's world. This voya...

Bad Faith
2024
as Narrator (voice)
On January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed an attack on the U.S. Capitol without precedent in our history. Armed militiamen and QAnon followers made head...

Fields of Gold
2023
as Narrator
A. E. Staley went from growing up barefoot on a farm in North Carolina, to building a billion dollar agribusiness giant. He was the original owner of ...

Against All Enemies
2023
as Narrator
Over one thousand people have been charged with storming the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, as part of a widely televised insurrection atte...

Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
2022
as Self
Governor Jerry Brown has had a storied political life, and Marina Zenovich’s tremendous portrait of him captures the highs and lows, augmented by pres...

Moment of Contact
2022
as Narrator (voice)
An exploration of potential extraterrestrial encounters centered on a series of events in Varginha, Brazil during 1996. Residents reported seeing one ...

The Weight of a Feather: The Liberty Wildlife Story
2022
as Narrator
An intimate exploration of the relationship between humans, nature, and the place we call home. Wildlife reveals how all living beings are connected....

The Last Stand
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Using the flash-point of British Columbia's "Battle for the Trees" at Fairy Creek, the documentary examines the importance of keeping forest ecosystem...

A Cloud Never Dies
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Weaving together original film and photographic archives, A CLOUD NEVER DIES tells the story of a humble young Vietnamese monk and poet whose wisdom a...

The Co-op Wars
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Today, co-ops are multi-million dollar businesses, so successful they’ve prompted mainstream grocery stores to stock organic food. But in the 1970s, i...

The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
2021
as Sam Donovan
When Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Suddenly people in her town are mysteriously healed! But fame soon takes ...

Wandering...But Not Lost
2021
as Narrator
Under cover of darkness and with no word of his plans, much-beloved Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche walked away from his li...

Nepal Beyond
2021
as Narrator
Four years after the devastating Gorkha earthquake, the people of Nepal still live everyday with the problems the world left behind.

Downwinders and the Radioactive West
2021
as Narrator (voice)
In the 1950s and ‘60s, the U.S. government conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada desert. The resulting fallout would kick off a decades-lo...

Marriner Eccles: Father of the Modern Federal Reserve
2021
as Narrator
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, Marriner was integral to the economic policies of the 1930s and ‘40s; he wa...

The Phenomenon
2020
as Narrator (voice)
This documentary examines unidentified aerial phenomenon. With testimony from high-ranking government officials and NASA Astronauts, Senator Harry Rei...
Sunseed: The Journey
2020
as Narrator (voice)
At the beginning of the hippy era in 1970 a young filmmaker travels the world struggling to find answers to life's deepest questions from the best gur...

Almost Thirteen
2020
as Narrator
A father’s heartfelt plea to have lifesaving talks with pre-teens and teens comes after his 12-year-old son’s suicide from COVID-related isolation.

Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019
as Self

Troubled Waters: A Turtle's Tale
2019
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Exploring the impact of human behavior on our environment from the perspective of one of South Florida's most beloved and fragile underwater creatures...

Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey
2019
as narrator
Swept up in the counterculture revolution of the late-1960s, a wealthy businessman starts a commune in pursuit of a utopian society. But his dreams ar...

The Atomic Tree
2019
as Narrator
The Atomic Tree is a virtual reality journey into the memories of one of the most revered trees in the world—a 400-year-old Japanese White Pine bonsai...

The Remarkable Life of John Weld
2018
as Narrator
The true life story of John Weld, who went from stuntman during Hollywood's golden era, to journalist, novelist and many other careers.

As If They Were Angels
2018
as Narrator
The little known story of one of the worst non-combat disasters in the history of the US Navy, …AS IF THEY WERE ANGELS is a story of courage, heart, s...

The Mayo Clinic
2018
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Mayo Clinic tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecca," the "Supreme Court of Medicine," and the "plac...

Summer of Love
2018
as Himself
American Experience presents Summer of Love, a striking picture of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district during the summer of 1967 -- from the utopi...

The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Professor
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. ...

Spielberg
2017
as Self
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
2017
'Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties' is an exploration of the 1960s Western cultural revolution as it ushers in our contemporary society. 'Revoluti...

The Beatles, Hippies & Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple
2017
as Himself - Narrator
The fascinating inside story of Apple Corps, The Beatles' very own multimedia corporation that became one of the most colourful, outlandish and chaoti...

1 Mile To You
2017
as Principal Umber
After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He...

Paris Can Wait
2016
Thanks
Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car ...

The Reality of Truth
2016
as Self
In this documentary, "Zappy" Zapolin interviews spiritual gurus, celebrities, and people of various faiths about the relationship between spirituality...

Americana
2016
as Ben
An alcoholic film editor puts together the pieces of his movie star sister's murder.

Who Wants to Live Forever? The Wisdom of Aging.
2016
as Himself
Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one hour documentary film about the myths, facts and contradictions in the never-ending battle for...

Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy
2015
as Self
A Thousand Years of Joy charts poet/activist Robert Bly's journey from Midwestern farm boy to global troubadour, bestselling author of Iron John and l...

Eva & Leon
2015
as Le Père
Leon arrives in Eva's life one morning, on the terrace of a café. The little boy settles down, asks for hot chocolate. The young woman, 35, without ch...

No Deposit
2015
as Police Chief Williams
Mickey Ryan falls from grace due to a series of downward spiraling events beyond his control. With his life turned upside down, Mickey tries valiantly...

A Coup in Camelot
2015
as Narrator (voice)
A fresh look at the forensic 'fingerprints' surrounding the JFK assassination, with analysis from the top experts and researchers of today. From in-de...

Good Kill
2015
as Langley
In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Eg...

Girl on the Edge
2015
as Hank Taylor
A powerful true story about the journey of a troubled teenage girl who finds healing in the most unlikely of places, and who must choose to either inv...

The Price of Fame
2015
as Crooker
A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.

Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
2014
as Burt Lowell
Serge Renart, a television journalist who's now a has-been, and Natacha Bison, a war reporter who has been laid off because she posed too much of a da...

Realm of the Ancient Redwoods
2014
as Narrator
They are perhaps the oldest lifeforms on the planet, and they are without a doubt the tallest. They are home to many species of plants and animals tha...

Angel Azul
2014
as Narrator
Through the hauntingly beautiful lure of Jason deCaire's Taylor's underwater, life-like statues we witness the birth of an artificial coral reef, lear...

Paolo Soleri: Beyond Form
2013
as Narrator
Genre and ground-breaking architect Paolo Soleri remains relatively unknown outside of architectural circles, but his legacy as an artist, builder and...

The Ghost Army
2013
as Narrator (Voice)
During World War II, a hand-picked group of American GI's undertook a bizarre mission: create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields o...

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
as Self
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Rise Above the Mark
2012
as Narrator
The purpose of Rise Above the Mark, narrated by Peter Coyote, is to educate the general public about the “corporate takeover” of Indiana public school...

Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
as Maxwell Perkins
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Right to Play
2012
as Narrator
The story of Norwegian speed-skating gold medalist Johann Olav Koss, who founded the non-profit organization Right to Play, which brings sports to chi...

Valparaiso
2012
as Edward G. Drexler
A young member of the European Parliament faces a conflict of interest as she leads an investigation into an oil tanker disaster.

Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72
2012
as Narrator
Cold War on Ice, produced by Emmy Award-winner Ross Greenburg, chronicles the historic 27-day ice hockey Summit Series in September of 1972 between a ...

The Gundown
2011
as Thomas Morgan
Seeking revenge and justice, Cole Brandt finds himself in the lawless town of Dead River where he is faced with one last bloody showdown for freedom i...

I am Fishead
2011
as narrator
A provocative snapshot of the world we live in. It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top...

Bag It
2011
as Self
An average guy makes a resolution to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store. Little does he know that this simple decision will change his life ...

Oceans in Glass
2011
as Narrator
Behind the Scenes of the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Last Will
2011
as Judge Garner
An affluent woman is framed for the murder of her husband and faces a mountain of evidence stacked against her. Undeterred, she begins to put the piec...

Green Fire
2011
as Aldo Leopold (voice)
Aldo Leopold is considered the most important conservationist of the twentieth-century. He is the father of the national wilderness system, wildlife m...

This Is Not a Movie
2011
Twisted, apocalyptic satire, THIS IS NOT A MOVIE envisions the end of the world through the bi-polar mind of a strung-out pop-culture addict. Starring...

These Amazing Shadows
2011
as Self
Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and inde...

Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
2011
as Narrator (voice)
Tiffany Shlain's documentary, Connected, explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time-the environment, consumption,...

Here
2011
as Storyteller
Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster...

DiDi Hollywood
2010
as Michael McLean
Bar worker Diana Diaz leaves Madrid for Miami and with new boyfriend, Robert (Luis Hacha), they then head for Hollywood, prepared to do anything for f...
Chattahoochee: From Water War to Water Vision
2010
as Narrator
“Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over” – prophetic words credited to Mark Twain. Yet even he could scarcely have imagined they would on...

What If Cannabis Cured Cancer
2010
as Narration
Could the chemicals found in marijuana prevent and even heal several deadly cancers? Could the tumor regulating properties of cannabinoids someday rep...
Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction
2010
as Narrator
The first feature-length documentary film to fully investigate the growing threat to Earth's life-support systems from the loss of biodiversity. If cu...
Vampire Forensics
2010

Nazi Mystery - Twins From Brazil
2009
as Narrstor (voice)
In 2009 a bizarre story spreads around the globe, reported as fact in the world’s newspapers: Josef Mengele – the infamous escaped Nazi concentration ...

24 Hours After: Asteroid Impact
2009
as Narrator
Travel back 66 million years ago when a meteor struck the Earth, wiping out three-quarters of all life on the planet. What happened in those first hou...
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
2009
as Self - Narrator (voice)
In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska Natives....

I Know What I Saw
2009
as Narrator (voice)
The most credible UFO witnesses from around the world tell stories that challenge reality in "I Know What I Saw," a documentary guaranteed to change t...

Climbing Redwood Giants
2009
as Self - Narrator (voice)
They are giants—stretching more than 300 feet above the ground, with hidden gardens and mysterious predators thriving within their canopy. National G...

With One Voice
2009
as Narrator
This illuminating documentary explores the unity of humanity, featuring mystics from around the world, whose lives have been dedicated to answering th...

What The Tourist Should See
2009
as Narrator (voice)
Homage to Fernando Pessoa and the city that lies next to the Tagus River.

Torturing Democracy
2009
as Narrator
Democracy is a 2008 documentary film produced by Washington Media Associates and narrated by Peter Coyote. The film details the use of "enhanced inter...
Huxley on Huxley
2009
as Self
Italian-born Laura Huxley, a teenage violin virtuoso, played for European royalty and made her American debut at Carnegie Hall before leaving the conc...

Grand Canyon: A Journey of Wonder
2009
as Narrator
The official orientation film for the Grand Canyon takes viewers on a rim to river and dawn to dusk journey through the park, and introduces the natur...

Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
2008
as Elliot Arthur
Based on true events, The Lena Baker Story recounts one African-American womans struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices...

Adopt a Sailor
2008
as Richard
Adopt A Sailor is about Patricia and Richard, a successful and hip couple from New York City who inadvertently "adopt a sailor" during Fleet Week in N...

A Single Woman
2008
as Maury Maverick
A Single Woman is a distinct, lively portrait of Jeannette Rankin (the first American woman elected to Congress; also a suffragist, peace activist and...

$5 a Day
2008
as Burt Kruger
After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.

Illicit: The Dark Trade
2008
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Documenting the shadowy world of illegal trade that in this era of globalization spans the entire planet with a growing web of criminal networks. Coun...

Alaska Far Away
2008
as Narrator
'Alaska Far Away' tells the story of the Matanuska Colonization Project of 1935, a creative and controversial New Deal program that relocated 202 fami...

Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
2008
as President Sterling
Maya Dolittle is back in a heartwarming adventure of presidential proportions! Maya's dream of going to vet school is put on hold when she gets a call...

The Brain Fitness Program
2008
The Brain Fitness Program is based on the brains ability to change and adapt, even rewire itself. In the past two years, a team of scientists has deve...

All Roads Lead Home
2008
as Hock
The story is about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to rai...
Texas Gold
2008
as Narrator
Portrait of Diane Wilson, local shrimper turned activist in Seadrift, Texas, along Highway 185 where giant petrochemical companies make Calhoun County...

One Man, One Cow, One Planet
2007
as Narrator
One man, One cow, One planet exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and hum...

Fog City Mavericks
2007
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco is a compelling exploration of the legendary filmmakers who call the San Francisco Bay Area home i...

Resurrecting the Champ
2007
as Ike Epstein
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. Wha...

Hippies
2007
as Self
The 1960's and 1970's were a time of change, a time of revolution, a time of the Hippies. Hippies reached across the nation and their effects are stil...

The Sunday Man
2007
as The Voice
The misadventures of a remarkably peculiar man, who has some very unusual ideas about who he is.

Strange Culture
2007
as Self
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members d...

Soldiers Of Conscience
2007
as Self
This country asked them to kill. Their hearts asked them to stop.

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006
as President Adair T. Manning
Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2006
as Narrator (voice)
Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by ev...

AKA Tommy Chong
2006
as Himself
Documentary about Tommy Chong's federal prosecution under the Bush administration for selling bongs over the Internet.

The Gospel of Judas
2006
It’s a revelation conjuring heated debate: According to a recently translated ancient text called the Gospel of Judas, the disciple infamous for betra...

The Gospel of Judas
2006
as Narrator
It’s a revelation conjuring heated debate: According to a recently translated ancient text called the Gospel of Judas, the disciple infamous for betra...

A Little Trip to Heaven
2005
as Frank
Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horr...

The Sacramento River of Life
2005
as Narrator
The Sacramento is one of the greatest rivers in the world, A " River of Life" providing the majority of salmon to the Pacific Ocean, but also a great ...
The War Prayer
2005
as Narrator
"In 1904, disgusted by the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short anti-war prose p...

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
2005
as Uncle Charles
A student creates and sells a drug called 'Z' which has the unexpected side effect of resurrecting the dead as flesh-eating zombies, who proceed to wr...

Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005
as Uncle Charles
In an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, a group of teenagers end up releasing a horde of bloodthirsty zombies.

The Tribe
2005
as Voice
An unorthodox, unauthorized history of the Jewish people and the Barbie doll.

Deepwater
2005
as Herman Finch
A drifter comes to the town of Deepwater and is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
as Narrator
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Commune
2005
as self, Black Bear resident
In 1968, Elsa and Richard Marley founded an alternative-living community, named Black Bear, in the remote Northern California wilderness with the mott...

The Great Role
2004
as Rudolph Grichenberg
When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his...

Shadow of Fear
2004
as Congressman Henderson
When a young man accidentally kills someone, he is plunged into a rich man's world of blackmail, betrayal, adultery and ...murder.

Oil on Ice
2004
as Narrator
Actor Peter Coyote narrates this in-depth documentary that examines the raging controversy over drilling for black gold in a 1.5-million-acre area of ...
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer
2004
A best-selling author for 30 years, Carlos Castaneda inspired millions to break free from social dogma, fueling controversy over his work's authentici...
Bare Knuckle Filming: The Construction of Northfork
2003
as Narrator
A short behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "Northfork" (2003).

The Hebrew Hammer
2003
as JJL Chief Bloomenbergensteinenthal
When a psychotic Santa tries to destroy Chanukah by hypnotizing Jewish children with bootlegged copies of the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life...

Phenomenon II
2003
as John Ringold
George Malley lives in a small town and is well-liked. One day he sees a strange flash of light in the sky and his life is radically changed. George h...

Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Beginning with William Wrigley's acquisition of the Santa Catalina Island Company in 1919, the history of the island is explored with archival footage...

Northfork
2003
as Eddie
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town,...

Out of the Blue
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Narrated by Peter Coyote, Out of The Blue is widely considered the best documentary ever made about Unidentified Objects. The producers traveled aroun...

Written In Blood
2003
as John Traveller
Detective John Traveller (Peter Coyote) is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. His partner and friend, Detective Matthew Ransom, become...

National Geographic: Surviving Everest
2003
as Narrator
Half a century ago, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to stand atop the highest mountain of earth. Now, their sons and Brent B...

Bon Voyage
2003
as Alex Winckler
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impa...

Grizzly Diaries
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Made famous by Werner Herzog's documentary GRIZZLY MAN, late bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell spent several months each year living among the grizzli...

A Time for Dancing
2002
as Wyn Michaels
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.

Femme Fatale
2002
as Watts
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug s...

Empty Oceans, Empty Nets
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Examines the global fisheries crisis and the forces pushing many marine fish stocks toward commercial extinction. Documents some promising and innovat...
Polanski y los ojos del mal
2002
as Himself
Documentary that describes and analyzes the characteristics, themes and central concerns of Roman Polanski's cinema.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special
2002
as Self
A retrospective of "E.T.," featuring a cast reunion and a look at the making of the 20th anniversary edition of the film.

Purpose
2002
as Bernard Elias
A software developer becomes a billionaire and is distracted by fame, greed and power, then must save his invention and company from a hostile takeove...

A Walk to Remember
2002
as Reverend Sullivan
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter o...

Suddenly Naked
2001
as Lionel Heathcote
A famous 'Jackie Collins' type novelist falls for a quirky twenty year old kid.

Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
2001
as Voice of Urban Renewal (Voice)
From the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS series NEIGHBORHOODS: THE HIDDEN CITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO comes the remarkable story of San Francisco's Fil...

Midwives
2001
as Stephen Hastings
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of ...

In the Light of Reverence
2001
as Narrator (voice)
This documentary, originally broadcast on the PBS series 'P.O.V.', explores three places considered sacred by Native Americans: Devils Tower in Wyomin...

Jack the Dog
2001
as Alfred
Jack is a dog. When he's not photographing women, as a profession, he's seducing them. Until now. Home from Paris, he feels empty and fed up with his ...

More Dogs Than Bones
2000
as Detective Darren Cody
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.

Red Letters
2000
as Dennis Burke
A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.

The Wednesday Woman
2000
as Don Wigulow
Muriel Davidson, a successful mystery author in a vulnerable stage of her life, falls for a charismatic ex-con. As they begin to bond over their traum...

The Basket
2000
as Martin Conlon
Peter Coyote (E.T., Erin Brokovich) and Karen Allen (The Perfect Storm) star in this touching family drama about the unifying power of basketball in a...

Erin Brockovich
2000
as Kurt Potter
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work fo...

Search for the Submarine I-52
2000
as Narrator
Companion TV documentary to the National Geographic Magazine article "The Last Dive of I-52" - October 1999 issue. Original NBC / National Geographic ...

Execution of Justice
1999
as Harvey Milk
The true story of the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. The case of assassin D...
Missing in Tibet
1999
as Narrator
Narrated by Goldie Hawn and Peter Coyote, this film is about Nwawang Choephel, a Tibetan-born exile, who, on December 26, 1996, was sentenced to 18 ye...

Random Hearts
1999
as Cullen Chandler
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possession...

Emperor of Hemp
1999
as Narrator
This documentary chronicles the life of Jack Herer and his struggle for awareness and enlightenment of cannabis sativa, a.k.a. marijuana or hemp. His ...

Murder on Shadow Mountain
1999
as Dennis 'Denny' Traynor
Denny Traynor has the idyllic life a loving wife and family, a flourishing career. Seems like life is perfect until some policemen from another break ...

National Geographic Explorer: The Battle For Midway
1999
as Himself - Narrator
National Geographic follows underwater explorer Bob Ballard as he searches for the aircraft carrier sunk during the Battle of Midway.

Last Call
1999
as Xuave
Three apartments in an old converted loft building set the stage for three bizarre love triangles. Nico, enjoys his older brother's top floor loft, wh...

Patch Adams
1998
as Bill Davis
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his pa...

Route 9
1998
as Sheriff Dwayne Hogan
During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several d...
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe
1998
as Narrator
Temiar Senoi, an indigenous people of Malaysia, live in the realm of unique dream culture. Their exceptionally harmonious and non-violent way of livin...

Indiscreet
1998
as Detective Roos
A case involving adultery, money and murder threatens a private eye's sobriety.

National Geographic's Storm of the Century
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The storm of 1993 that ravaged the Eastern Seaboard was bigger than any since the 1800s. Most were expecting only more unseasonable warmth, and were c...

Seeds Of Doubt
1998
Jennifer Kingsley, a newspaper journalist, believes a man has been falsely convicted of murder, and becomes set on proving his innocence.
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
1998
as Narrator
This documentary narrated by Peter Coyote, shows the making of the Oscar-winning movie by James Cameron.

Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
1998
as Narrator, English version (voice)
The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and the...

Sphere
1998
as Captain Harold C. Barnes
A spacecraft is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists an...

Two for Texas
1998
as Jim Bowie
Kris Kristofferson and Scott Bairstow are hunted fugitives from a Louisiana prison camp who come Two for Texas when they opt to lose themselves in a c...
San Francisco Diggers
1998
The San Francisco Diggers was a radical community-action group of activists and Improvisational actors operating from 1967 to 1968, based in the Haigh...

Avalanche: The White Death
1998
as Narrator
This fierce force of nature can snap trees as if they were twigs, reduce houses to rubble, and kill anyone unlucky enough to stand in the way.

The Secrets of 007
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series.

Road Ends
1997
as Gene Gere
Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Najera). Now Orosco is out of prison, and Maceda has a...

Top of the World
1997
as Doc 'The Butcher'
In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They wi...

Murder in My Mind
1997
as Arthur Lefcourt
Brain cells from a murdered woman are transplanted into an FBI agent, in the hopes of finding the killer.

Alaska's Great Wilderness Denali: The Living Edens
1997
as Narrator
Travel to Alaska's great wilderness, a place of incomparable beauty and power where you will witness close-up the amazing cycles of life in one of the...

The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
1996
as Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."

Terminal Justice
1996
as Deacon Vivyan
In 2008 cybersex can only be surpassed by one thing: Cloned women, especially created for their clients. This puts Pamela Travis, a famous and much so...

Dalva
1996
as Michael
The sweeping story of Dalva Northridge, a young woman of part-Sioux heritage from an old, landed family on the Nebraska plains, and of her lifelong ye...

Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
1996
as Ruben Borchardt
True crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenaged students to murder her estranged husband.

Unforgettable
1996
as Don Bresler
Seattle medical examiner David Krane is obsessed with solving his wife's murder. A possible solution presents itself in an experimental "memory" serum...

Moonlight and Valentino
1995
as Paul
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.

That Eye, the Sky
1995
as Henry Warburton
Ort Flack is 12 years old and lives with his mother and his sister Tegwyn in the Australian outback. The three of them also have to take care of their...

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Narrator
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...

Buffalo Girls
1995
as Buffalo Bill Cody
The bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' ru...

The History of Rock 'n' Roll
1995
as Self
The history of rock n' roll and pop music are explored are explored via interviews and footage of well-known music stars.

American Cinema
1995
as Narrator
The history of Hollywood and filmmaking comes alive in this spectacular nine hour celebration of movie magic. It's a mesmerizing, epic analysis that c...

Breach of Conduct
1994
as Col. Andrew Case
Helen attracts the unwanted attention of the commander of her husband's new army base. Colonel Andrew Case arranges to have Helen's husband travel on ...

The Peyote Road
1994
as Narrator
The Peyote Road addresses the United States Supreme Court 'Smith' decision, which denied protection of 1st Amendment religious liberty to the sacramen...

Kika
1993
as Nicholas Pierce
When American author Nicholas brings in a cosmetologist named Kika to prepare the corpse of his recently deceased son, she inadvertently revives the y...

Earth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness l...

Bitter Moon
1992
as Oscar
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

Keeper of the City
1991
as Frank Nordhall
A vigilante killer becomes a celebrity by gunning down Chicago mobsters, but nobody except a police detective and a local journalist seems eager to ca...

Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
1991
Thanks
An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977, w...

Living a Lie
1991
as Matt
Way out west, it's a moral dilemma for Jill Eikenberry. Her character, manicurist Joanne Johnson, is the kind of woman who stands by her man. She and ...

Crooked Hearts
1991
as Edward Warren
An upper-middle class family in Washington state deals with failures, infidelities and troubling secrets. Charley is 26 and still lives at home, despi...

High Art
1991
as Peter Mandrake
Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers whe...

A Seduction in Travis County
1991
as Frank Maguire
An acquitted killer (Lesley Ann Warren) lusts after her lawyer (Peter Coyote), who is a married man.
The Man Inside
1990
as Henry Tobel
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He...

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 19...

Poison in the Rockies
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Acid rain, economic development, and a century of mining pollute Rocky Mountain waters.

Unconquered
1989
as Richmond Flowers Sr.
In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family'...

Heart of Midnight
1988
as Sharpe/Larry
A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. C...

Baja Oklahoma
1988
as Slick Henderson
Juanita Hutchins works at Texas bar, but she aspires to be a country songwriter. When she's not looking after her impulsive daughter, Candy, or vouchi...
Collision Course: Labor Management Relations in America
1988
as Narrator
This film traces the dramatic rise and fall of workplace cooperation at Eastern Airlines. In so doing, the film uncovers the deep-seated assumptions w...

Echoes in the Darkness
1987
as William Bradfield Jr.
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Townshi...

A Man in Love
1987
as Steve Elliott
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later th...

Sworn to Silence
1987
as Sam Fischetti
A lawyer who is defending an accused murderer, is told by his client the whereabouts of the bodies. However, being his lawyer, he is unable to reveal ...

Outrageous Fortune
1987
as Michael Sanders
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actre...

Stacking
1987
as The Photographer
After her father is injured, a teenager and an alcoholic employee struggle to save their financially troubled farm in 1954 Montana.

Child's Cry
1986
as Matt Townsend
A social worker starts working with a shy, withdrawn 6 year old whom she believes is the victim of sexual abuse.

The Blue Yonder
1985
as Max Knickerbocker
A young boy, who dreams of meeting the grandfather he never knew gets his chance, when an inventor friend constructs a time machine. After arriving in...

Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
1985
as Narrator (voice)
Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow tribe's turbulent past with modern-day accounts fr...

Jagged Edge
1985
as Thomas Krasny
After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a crimina...

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
1985
as Narrator
Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William S. ...

The Legend of Billie Jean
1985
as Lt. Larry Ringwald
Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one da...

Scorned and Swindled
1984
as Anthony Ristelli
A man seduces women to get their money. He has plenty of success, but this time he has met his match.

Heartbreakers
1984
as Blue
Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter, is left by his longtime girlfriend because she considers him too immature for a lasting relationship. Eli, Blue'...

Best Kept Secrets
1984
as Frank Mitchell
Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forr...

Slayground
1983
as Stone
After thieves botch an armored truck robbery that leads to the death of an innocent young girl, her father vows revenge by recruiting a sociopathic hi...

The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizon...

Cross Creek
1983
as Norton Baskin
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused n...

Strangers Kiss
1983
as Stanley, the Director
To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small budget film being made by a first-time producer and directo...
The UFO Experience
1982
A look at the possibility of contacts with aliens

Endangered Species
1982
as Steele
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
1982
as Porter Reese
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's f...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982
as Keys
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliot who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extr...

Breach of Contract
1982
A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other's ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for their...

Out
1982
as Rex
A self-styled "urban guerrilla" in Greenwich Village is sent on various assignments across the country by a mysterious "commander."

Isabel's Choice
1981
as Wynn Thomas
When the boss she helped climb the corporate ladder is forced into early retirement, a widowed executive secretary must choose between his surprise ma...

Southern Comfort
1981
as Poole
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing ...

People vs. Jean Harris
1981
as George Bolen
This dramatic re-enactment premiered a mere nine weeks after the actual headline-making trial of the refined private school headmistress who was convi...

Tell Me a Riddle
1980
as Young David
A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife is dying. Together they try to reconnect with their...

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
as Courtney Taylor
Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "T...

Die Laughing
1980
as Davis
A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds ...

The Hippie Temptation
1967
as Digger
CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of ...
National Geographic Special: Secret Cities of the Amazon
N/A

San Francisco Stories
N/A
as Narrator/SInger
Five interlocking stories set in San Francisco. The triumphs and tragedies of people dealing with life's difficulties and discoveries set against this...

Pretty Slick - The Deep Water Horizon Environmental Coverup - Extended Directors Cut
N/A
as Narrator
Presenting the extended directors cut from Filmmaker James Fox (Out of the Blue and I Know What I Saw). On April 20th, 2010, the BP Deep Water Horizon...

Hayden's Corner
N/A
as Narrator (voice)
The world lost Hayden Hunstable to suicide in the middle of the mandated stay-at-home orders on April 17th, just 4 days before his 13th birthday. Hayd...