Peter Coyote
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10/09/1942
Colver, PA |
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| Tested for the role of Indiana Jones in 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark. The next year, director Steven Spielberg cast him in a pivotal part in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. |
| Made his film debut with an uncredited bit in 1978's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. |
| Won a 1993 Pushcart Prize for nonfiction for Carla's Story, a chapter from his memoir Sleep Where I Fall about his days in the '60s and '70s counterculture. |
| Served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1997 and wrote about the experience for the magazine Mother Jones. |
| From 1976-83, he served as chairman of the California State Arts Council. |
| Early on he was a dock worker and a feather peddler. |
