Person
Sylvester McCoy
Acting · Born 1943-08-20 · Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Biography
Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith; 20 August 1943) is a Scottish actor and physical comedian. He is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989—the final Doctor of the original run—and briefly returning in a television film in 1996. He is also known for his work as Radagast in The Hobbit film series (2012—2014).
Known for
Doctor Who
The Doctor
Casualty
Kev the Rev
Father Brown
Dr. Angus McClurgy
GMTV
Self
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Radagast the Brown
Playhouse
Kerwin
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Radagast the Brown
The Bill
1984
Pointless Celebrities
Self
Tiswas
1974
Filmography
- 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2025The HeartsmithUmbrella Man
- 2025Dead Before They WakeEvan
- 2024Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (7) (archive footage)
- 2024The Apocalypse BoxPeter Mann
- 2023The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The MovieKnibbles the Beaver (voice)
- 2023Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
- 2023Tales of the TardisThe Doctor
- 2023Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2Self
- 2023Sylvester McCoy UncutHimself
- 2023NecronomiconBook Seller (archive footage)
- 2022Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!Klakk (voice)
- 2022The MunstersIgor
- 2022The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird LaneIgor / Self
- 2021Christmas with StrangersSelf
- 2021In Conversation: Sylvester McCoySelf
- 2021Doctor Who: 24 CaratThe Doctor
- 2020Lost at ChristmasErnie
- 2020The OwnersRichard Huggins
- 2020The Big Night InSelf
- 2020Conjuring: The Book of the DeadBook Seller (archive footage)
- 2019The Circuit
- 2019The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
- 2018Hangover in Death ValleyGeneral Zwick (archive footage)
- 2018Doctor Who: Behind the SofaSelf
- 2018The Doctors: Monsters!
- 2018BeautyHenry
- 2017SlumberAmado
- 2016The Real Marigold HotelSelf
- 2016Punk Strut: The MovieDJ
- 2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)
- 2015Thunderbirds Are Go!Aezethril the Wizard (voice)
- 2014The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five ArmiesRadagast the Brown
- 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf
- 2014The Seventeenth KindRusty
- 2013The Hobbit: The Desolation of SmaugRadagast the Brown
- 2013Doctor Who Live: The AfterpartySelf
- 2013The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf
- 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (7) (archive footage)
- 2013The Christmas CandleEdward Haddington
- 2013Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDISSelf
- 2013Doctor Who ExplainedSelf
- 2013Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf
- 2013Father BrownDr. Angus McClurgy
- 2012The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyRadagast the Brown
- 2012The Inspector ChroniclesUncle Roderick
- 2012EldoradoGeneral Zwick
- 2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
- 2011Pointless CelebritiesSelf
- 2010The Last Chance Saloon
- 2010The Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy
- 2008Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (7) (archive footage)
- 2008King LearThe Fool
- 2007Davros Connections(archival footage)
- 2007Doctor Who: EndgameSelf
- 2006MayoReverend Beaver
- 2006Manilla EnvelopesDuncan
- 2005Doctor Who: A New DimensionSelf
- 2005Doctor Who Confidential
- 2003The Story of Doctor Who
- 2002My Doctor Who Diary
- 2002Still Game
- 2002Doctor Who: Death Comes to TimeThe Doctor
- 2001Then & Now
- 2001Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?The Foot Doctor
- 2000The Mumbo JumboMr. Tallman
- 2000You: Story and Glory of a MasterpieceMuseum attendant / Vasilij Grossman
- 1999Adventures in Space and TimeHimself
- 1998Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
- 1997The History of Tom Jones: A FoundlingMr, Dowling
- 1997Space CadetsSelf
- 1997Beyond FearMichael Samms
- 1996Spellbreaker: Secret of the LeprechaunsFlynn
- 1996Doctor WhoThe Doctor
- 1996Bidding Adieu: A Video DiarySelf
- 1996I Was a Doctor Who Monster!Presenter
- 1996GhostlandsEdward Parfitt
- 1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
- 1995Leapin' LeprechaunsFlynn
- 1995Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
- 1994PROBE: The Zero ImperativeDr. Colin Dove
- 1994Stranger than Fiction
- 1993Police 5: The MasterThe Doctor (archive footage)
- 1993I Was That MonsterHimself
- 199330 Years in the TARDISHimself
- 1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in TimeThe 7th Doctor
- 1993Frank Stubbs PromotesAngus
- 1993The Airzone SolutionAnthony Stanwick
- 1993GMTVSelf
- 1992The Children's Royal Variety PerformanceThe Wizard
- 1991Doctor Who: The Hartnell YearsSelf - Presenter
- 1991The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
- 1991Thrill Kill Video ClubSpoons
- 1990Search Out SpaceThe Doctor
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes V
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes III
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes II
- 1989Doctor Who: SurvivalThe Doctor
- 1989Doctor Who: The Curse of FenricThe Doctor
- 1989Doctor Who: Ghost LightThe Doctor
- 1989Doctor Who: BattlefieldThe Doctor
- 1988Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the GalaxyThe Doctor
- 1988Doctor Who: Silver NemesisThe Doctor
- 1988The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
- 1988Doctor Who: The Happiness PatrolThe Doctor
- 1988Doctor Who: Remembrance of the DaleksThe Doctor
- 1987Doctor Who: DragonfireThe Doctor
- 1987Doctor Who: Delta and the BannermenThe Doctor
- 1987Doctor Who: Paradise TowersThe Doctor
- 1987Doctor Who: Time and the RaniThe Doctor
- 1987Going Live!Self
- 1987Three Kinds of HeatHarry Pimm
- 1987It's Wicked
- 1987Doctor Who Then & NowDoctor Who
- 1986The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
- 1986CasualtyKev the Rev
- 1985The Last Place on EarthLt. 'Birdie' Bowers
- 1984The Bill
- 1983DramaramaDonald
- 1981Big Jim and the Figaro ClubTurps
- 1980Electric in the CityKerwin
- 1979The Secret Policeman's BallVarious Roles
- 1979DraculaWalter
- 1979Big Jim and the Figaro ClubTurps
- 1978An Audience with...Self
- 1977For the Love of Albert
- 1974PlayhouseKerwin
- 1974Tiswas
- 1971The Ken Campbell RoadshowSelf
- 1964Vision On
- 1963Doctor WhoThe Doctor
- —Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?Self
- —BananacideDr. Brunswick
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