FrameThrower · Actors · Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote
6 films · 450 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1982–2002
Born 10 October 1941 · New York City, New York, USA
Peter Coyote is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts.
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 counter-culture scene led to his being interviewed for the noted book, Voices from the Love Generation.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 450 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1982–2002
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator2015
- News and Documentary Emmy Awards1993
How their films are shot
Measured across 450 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Peter takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 45% natural — the look of the work Peter takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 450 frames from Peter Coyote's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.