PETER COYOTE began his film career at 39, after living nearly fifteen years in the counter-culture of the Sixties. Since then, he has performed as an actor for some of the world’s most distinguished filmmakers, including: Barry Levinson, Roman Polanski, Pedro Almodovar, Steven Spielberg, Walter Hill, Martin Ritt, Steven Soderberg, Diane Kurys, Sidney Pollack and Jean Paul Rappeneau. Mr. Coyote has written a memoir of the 1960’s counter-culture called Sleeping Where I Fall which received universally excellent reviews, appeared on three best-seller lists, sold five printings in hardback and is in its second printing in paperback after being released by Counterpoint Press in 1999. It is currently in use as a  source text for Sixties studies in several universities. A chapter from that book, “Carla’s Story, won the 1993/94 Pushcart Prize for Excellence in non-fiction
Mr. Coyote is also well known for his voice-over work, and has done numerous documentaries and TV specials, including the nine-hour PBS Special, The West. In 1992 he won an EMMY as the “Host” for a nine-hour series, called, The Pacific Century, which also won the extremely prestigious Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. In 2000 year he was the announcer of the  Academy Awards Ceremony, broadcast live to an estimated one billion listeners. He is still recovering from that. In the last two years he has appeared in principle roles in: Femme Fatale, directed by Brian DePalma, and A Walk to Remember, starring young singer Mandy Moore. Northfork by the Polish Brothers and Bon Voyage by Jean Paul Rappeneau . Last year he had a major role in three television series: The Inside on Fox-TV, the 4400 on USA Channel and played the Vice-President to Geena Davis’s President on Commander in Chief for ABC-TV until the show’s end. This last year he was featured in Rod Lurie’s “Resurrecting the Champ” with Samuel. L. Jackson and Josh Hartnett, and as Sally Field’s disreputable writing teacher on the television series, “Brothers and Sisters.”