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I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.

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Peter Coyote
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 10
Actor
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Robert Peter Cohon
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