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Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy

Actor · Born August 20, 1943 · Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

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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).

Acted in 104

2020s

  1. 2025

    Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

    The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

  2. Dead Before They Wake

    Evan

  3. 2024

    Doctor Who at the Proms

    The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

  4. The Apocalypse Box

    Peter Mann

  5. 2023

    The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie

    Knibbles the Beaver (voice)

  6. Tales of the Tardis

    The Doctor · 1 episode

  7. 2022

    Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!

    Klakk (voice)

  8. 2021

    Doctor Who: 24 Carat

    The Doctor

  9. 2020

2010s

  1. 2019

    The Circuit

    Movie

  2. The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years

    Movie

  3. 2018

    Hangover in Death Valley

    General Zwick (archive footage)

  4. The Doctors: Monsters!

    Movie

  5. Beauty

    Henry

  6. 2017
  7. 2016
  8. Punk Strut: The Movie

    DJ

  9. 2015
  10. Crims

    Mr Dunlop · 1 episode

  11. 2014
  12. The Seventeenth Kind

    Rusty

  13. 2013
  14. Doctor Who at the Proms

    The Doctor (7) (archive footage) (uncredited)

  15. 2012
  16. The Inspector Chronicles

    Uncle Roderick

  17. 2011

    Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

    Movie

  18. 2010

    The Last Chance Saloon

    Movie

  19. The Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy

    Movie

2000s

  1. 2008

    Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

    The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

  2. 2007

    Davros Connections

    (archival footage)

  3. 2006

    Mayo

    Reverend Beaver · 1 episode

  4. 2005
  5. 2003

    The Story of Doctor Who

    Movie

  6. 2002

    My Doctor Who Diary

    Movie

  7. Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

    The Doctor

  8. 2001

    Then & Now

    Movie

  9. Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?

    The Foot Doctor

  10. 2000

    The Mumbo Jumbo

    Mr. Tallman

  11. You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece

    Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman

1990s

  1. 1998

    Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

    Movie

  2. 1997
  3. Beyond Fear

    Michael Samms

  4. 1996

    Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns

    Flynn

  5. I Was a Doctor Who Monster!

    Presenter

  6. 1995

    The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

    Movie

  7. Leapin' Leprechauns

    Flynn

  8. Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen

    Movie

  9. 1994

    PROBE: The Zero Imperative

    Dr. Colin Dove

  10. Stranger than Fiction

    Movie

  11. 1993

    Police 5: The Master

    The Doctor (archive footage)

  12. Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

    The 7th Doctor

  13. Frank Stubbs Promotes

    Angus · 1 episode

  14. 1992

    The Children's Royal Variety Performance

    The Wizard

  15. 1991

    The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event

    Movie

  16. Thrill Kill Video Club

    Spoons

  17. 1990

    Search Out Space

    The Doctor

  18. The PanoptiCon Tapes V

    Movie

  19. The PanoptiCon Tapes IV

    Movie

  20. The PanoptiCon Tapes III

    Movie

  21. The PanoptiCon Tapes II

    Movie

1980s

  1. 1989

    Doctor Who: Survival

    The Doctor

  2. Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric

    The Doctor

  3. Doctor Who: Ghost Light

    The Doctor

  4. Doctor Who: Battlefield

    The Doctor

  5. 1988

    Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

    The Doctor

  6. Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis

    The Doctor

  7. The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis

    Movie

  8. Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol

    The Doctor

  9. Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks

    The Doctor

  10. 1987

    Doctor Who: Dragonfire

    The Doctor

  11. Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

    The Doctor

  12. Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

    The Doctor

  13. Doctor Who: Time and the Rani

    The Doctor

  14. Three Kinds of Heat

    Harry Pimm

  15. Doctor Who Then & Now

    Doctor Who · 1 episode

  16. 1986

    The PanoptiCon Tapes VI

    Movie

  17. 1985

    The Last Place on Earth

    Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers · 7 episodes

  18. 1984
  19. 1983
  20. 1980

    Electric in the City

    Kerwin

1970s

  1. 1979

    The Secret Policeman's Ball

    Various Roles

  2. Big Jim and the Figaro Club

    Turps

  3. 1974

No release date

  1. Bananacide

    Dr. Brunswick

Produced 1

No release date

  1. Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?

    Executive Producer

Camera 1

1990s

  1. 1996

    Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

    Camera Operator

Directed 1

1990s

  1. 1996

    Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

    Director

Appearances28

2020s

  1. 2023

    Talking Doctor Who

    Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

  2. Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2

    Self

  3. Sylvester McCoy Uncut

    Himself

  4. 2021

    Christmas with Strangers

    Self

  5. In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy

    Self

  6. 2020

    The Big Night In

    Self

2010s

  1. 2018
  2. 2016

    The Real Marigold Hotel

    Self · 3 episodes

  3. 2014

    Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

    Self

  4. 2013

    Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

    Self

  5. The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

    Self

  6. Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

    Self

  7. Doctor Who Explained

    Self

  8. Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

    Self · 11 episodes

  9. 2011

2000s

  1. 2007

    Doctor Who: Endgame

    Self

  2. 2005

    Collectormania 7

    Self

  3. Doctor Who: A New Dimension

    Self

1990s

  1. 1999

    Adventures in Space and Time

    Himself

  2. 1996

    Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

    Self

  3. 1993

    I Was That Monster

    Himself

  4. 30 Years in the TARDIS

    Himself

  5. 1991

    Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years

    Self - Presenter

1970s

  1. 1978
  2. 1971

    The Ken Campbell Roadshow

    Self

No release date

  1. Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?

    Self