Peter Coyote's Path From Street Theater To the Big Screen to Zen

Peter Coyote began his work in street theater and political organizing in San Francisco. He went on to act in over 140 films and win an Emmy for narrating the documentary “Pacific Century.” In his memoir The Rainman's Third Cure: An Irregular Education, 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 introduces him to the practice of Zen.