[15], After a short apprenticeship at the San Francisco Actor's Workshop, he joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a radical political street theater whose members were arrested for performing in parks without permits. [23][25][26], Coyote performed audiobook recordings of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and Paul Reps's Zen Flesh, Zen Bones as well as narrating the documentary Inquiry into the Great Matter: A History of Zen Buddhism. They fed nearly 600 people a day for "free", asking only that people pass through a six-foot by six-foot square known as The Free Frame of Reference. Leonard Maltin once wrote, "Coyote's no rubber-stamp leading man", but he seems comfortable with that. I was involved with practically every kind of revolutionary movement of the period. In 2010 he narrated the documentary Solitary Confinement on the effect of long-term isolation, with footage taken from Colorado State Penitentiary where all prisoners are held this way. When he was 17 years old, Coyote was arrested with a friend for trying to transport eighteen pounds of marijuana across the Mexican border into Texas. [4], Coyote's voice work includes his narration for the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad Retina Display campaign. He narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century (1992), winning an Emmy, and eight documentaries directed or produced by Ken Burns: The West (1996), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Dust Bowl (2012), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), The Mayo Clinic: Faith--Hope--Science (2018), and Country Music (2019). He is known for his work in films such as E.T. He was seriously considered for the role of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and auditioned for the part. It takes a special acting project to get Peter Coyote to leave his home in California, located about one and a half hours north of San Francisco. Referenced in The Rainman's Third Cure by Peter Coyote. Both people who saw it in America loved it. PO Box 1583, Merrifield VA 22116-1583 1-800-822-9919 He also states he was a close friend of singer Janis Joplin. He is an actor, known for Bitter Moon (1992), Sphere (1998) and Patch Adams (1998). I did a movie called, A Man In Love, which put me on the cover of every magazine in Europe; huge hit. 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. [32], In April 2015, his memoir The Rainman's Third Cure: An Irregular Education was released, where he "provides portraits of mentors that shaped him—including his violent, intimidating father, a bass player, a Mafia Consiglieri, and beat poet Gary Snyder, who introduced him to the practice of Zen. |  I knew about his films, and I also knew somewhere about his background in group theater. 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While playing the lead in the world premiere of Sam Shepard's True West, a Hollywood agent approached him, and his film career began with Die Laughing (1980). Daughter, Ariel, with Eileen 'Sam' Ewing. While a student at Grinnell College in 1961, Coyote was one of the organizers of a group of twelve students who traveled to Washington, D.C. during the Cuban Missile Crisis supporting President John F. Kennedy's "peace race". [3][6], Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s. [23][24] He was later ordained a lay priest in the Sōtō tradition and was ordained as a Zen Priest in 2015. They appreciated that. By paying artists to "solve problems for the state" rather than to make art, they bypassed the objections of many conservative lawmakers. He has given both Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon and Robert Peter Cohon as his birthname in interviews. In 2006, he developed a political television show for Link TV called "The Active Opposition" and in 2007 created Outside the Box with Peter Coyote starting on Link TV's special, Special: The End of Oil – Part 2. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Cross Creek (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Patch Adams (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), A Walk to Remember (2002), Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) and Good Kill (2014). [24][27], In keeping with his dedication to community-based art, Peter Coyote was employed in the early 1970s by the San Francisco Arts Commission in the historical Neighborhood Arts Program (NAP), with funding from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA, Pub.L. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay area and Marin County since just after his graduation from Grinnell College in 1964. 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Coyote engineered relationships with 14 departments of the state of California, which began to use artists in a variety of capacities, paying 50 cents on the dollar for it. Our beloved wildlife ambassador has been creating lifelong connections with nature for generations. After The Inside was canceled, Coyote returned to The 4400 as a special guest star for their two-part season finale, then joined the cast of ABC's series Commander in Chief as the Vice President of the United States, and the next year did a four episode turn as Sally Field's disreputable boyfriend in Brothers & Sisters. Peter describes the intent of the design: “my house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.”. His council introduced the idea of artists as "creative problem solvers." It has gone through five hardback printings and is in its second paperback edition. This Bill Saves Wildlife in Crisis. The group received wide press coverage. "Carla's Story", a chapter from the book which was released earlier, won the Pushcart Prize for Excellence in Non-Fiction in 1993/1994. Of this period of his life, Coyote wrote in Sleeping Where I Fall, The failure to curb personal indulgence was a major collective error. Learn about Coyote Peterson: his birthday, what he did before fame, his family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. They mimeographed the resulting headlines and sent them to every college in the United States. In 1978, Coyote began acting again ("to shake the rust out") appearing in plays at San Francisco's award-winning Magic Theatre. In 2014, he appeared in the TNT television series Perception, as the father of the main character, Dr. Daniel Pierce, and narrated Burns' The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; the latter saw him win his first Primetime Emmy Award. In his book "Lila," author Robert Pirsig relates that Coyote was in his mind to star in an adaptation of, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." As a result, he never had emotional intimacy with his genetic mother until he was age 34, after the death of his father. In 2008, he narrated Torturing Democracy, a documentary produced by PBS which details the George W. Bush administration's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" in the War on Terror. A raccoon and skunk parade (Photo by Peter Coyote). His father, Morris Cohon, was from a family of both Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish ancestry (from Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Tunisia). "I'm a Zen Buddhist student first, actor second", Coyote has said. "If I can't reconcile the two lives, I'll stop acting. He gave supporting performances in Tell Me a Riddle (1980), Southern Comfort (1981), and as the mysterious scientist "Keys" in E.T. [on lining in the 1960s] I lived on communes. He is known for his work in films such as E.T. His mother, Ruth (Fidler), was a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire. The Americans always wanted to know who's wearing the white hat and who's wearing the black hat. He is 78 years old and is a Libra. They ran a Free Store,[18][19] (where not only the goods, but the management roles were free), a Free Medical Clinic, and even a short-lived Free Bank. He served on the CAC from 1975 to 1983.