

I really think you'll enjoy this conversation.

He began his film career at 39, after living nearly fifteen years in the counter-culture during the 1960s and 70s.
#PETER COYOTE VOICE CODE#
I didn't know that's what I was looking for before we spoke, but it seems to me that I wanted to know how he managed to stay so true to his own personal code and authentic self, and also survive as a film actor. I think I wanted him to give me some kind of guidance, or permission. So when you hear him speak, it's like hearing an old friend.įor me I suppose it was a bit like finding a new teacher as well. Or maybe it's because even if you don't realize it, you've heard him before - narrating documentaries (he's Ken Burns' go-to-guy), on film, in commercials and television shows. Maybe that's because he has a plain spoken way of talking about big ideas. Maybe that's because his voice reminds you of someone you know, or think you already know. Peter Coyote is familiar even if he's a stranger to you. OctoHalfway through episode five of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s ten-part The Vietnam War documentary, the smooth, sonorous-voiced narrator Peter Coyote describes how 50,000 antiwar activists marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon 50 years ago on October 21 st, 1967.
