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Peter Coyote (born Robert Peter Cohon; October 10, 1941)〔〔(Official Website, Biography )〕 is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audiobooks. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad Retina Display campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts. His distinctive voice helped him win a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 1992 for narration of "The Meiji Revolution" episode of the PBS series ''The Pacific Century'',〔 as well as a Primetime Emmy Award in 2015 for Ken Burns' documentary special ''The Roosevelts''.〔http://www.emmys.com/sites/default/files/Downloads/2015-creative-arts-winners-v1.pdf〕 He has often been compared with actor Henry Fonda.〔〔(Comment on Coyote's voice and 1992 Emmy )〕 Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s. 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 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 became a member, and later chairman, of the California Arts Council from 1975 to 1983. In the late 1970s, he shifted from acting on stage to acting in films. In the 1990s and 2000s (decade), he acted in several television shows. He speaks fluent Spanish and French.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peter Coyote's Biography )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Spring 2004 Newsletter )〕 ==Early life== Coyote was born in New York City, the son of Ruth (née Fidler) and Morris Cohon, an investment banker.〔(Peter Coyote profile at Film Reference.com )〕 His father was of Sephardic Jewish descent and his mother came from a working-class Ashkenazi Jewish family. 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.〔 Coyote "was raised in a highly intellectual, cultural but unreligious family",〔("Peter Coyote: 'an outsider with a Jewish sense of humor' " )〕 involved in left-wing politics.〔(''Tie Dayenu'' )〕 He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey〔(Peter Coyote biodata ), ''Jack Magazine''. Accessed November 25, 2007. "At fourteen he was a campaign worker in the Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign in his home town of Englewood New Jersey."〕 and graduated from the Dwight Morrow High School there in 1960. 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.〔("Susie Nelson's other son" by Al Wheless, ''The Daily Dispatch'', Henderson, North Carolina, April 29, 2008 ).〕 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. during the Cuban Missile Crisis supporting U.S. President John F. Kennedy's "peace race". Kennedy invited the group into the White House, the first time protesters had ever been so recognized, and they met for several hours with McGeorge Bundy. The group received wide press coverage. They mimeographed the resulting headlines and sent them to every college in the United States.〔 Once he graduated from Grinnell College with a BA in English literature in 1964,〔 Coyote moved to the west coast, despite having been accepted at the Iowa Writers' Workshop,〔 and commenced working towards a master's degree in creative writing at San Francisco State University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Coyote」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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