In the 1990s and 2000s, he acted in several television shows. Voice, Earth and the American Dream, HBO, 1993. In the late 1970s, he shifted from acting on stage to acting in films. Narrator, Orson Welles: What Went Wrong, Crazy about the Movies (documentary), Cinemax, 1992.

Coyote became a member, and later chairman, of the California Arts Council from 1975 to 1983. Though an instantly recognizable face from films such as E.T. Generations of kids first met Coyote as the embodiment of authority he played. 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. His calm, cowboy-around-a-campfire timbre is basically the voice of America, at least within the orbit of PBS. Coyote was also an actor, writer and director with the San Francisco Mime Troupe his prominence in the San Francisco counter-culture scene led to his being interviewed for the noted book, Voices from the Love Generation. Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts. In addition to acting in 120 films, Coyote has won an Emmy for narrating the award-winning documentary Pacific Century, and he has cowritten, directed, and. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also held a long time passion for the literary. The Coyote Cycle: Answers from Peter Coyote by J.Macon King (Former) Mill Valley resident Peter Coyote is known for many accomplishments: actor, narrator, activist. 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. Peter Coyote: Not just a pretty face and a golden voice, but once a street charmer.

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