Sylvester McCoy

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Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
August 20, 1943

Place of Birth:
Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

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Sylvester McCoy

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

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2025 Dead Before They Wake Evan
2025 The Heartsmith Umbrella Man
2025 Doctor Who: Downtime The Doctor
2025 Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors The Doctor
2025 Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024 The Apocalypse Box Peter Mann
2024 Doctor Who at the Proms The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
2023 Necronomicon Book Seller (archive footage)
2023 Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2 Self
2023 Talking Doctor Who Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
2023 Sylvester McCoy Uncut Himself
2022 The Munsters Igor
2022 The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane Igor / Self
2022 Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth! Klakk (voice)
2021 Doctor Who: 24 Carat The Doctor
2021 Christmas with Strangers Self
2020 Conjuring: The Book of the Dead Book Seller (archive footage)
2020 The Owners Richard Huggins
2020 Lost at Christmas Ernie
2019 The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
2019 The Circuit
2018 Hangover in Death Valley General Zwick (archive footage)
2018 Beauty Henry
2018 The Doctors: Monsters!
2017 Slumber Amado
2016 Punk Strut: The Movie DJ
2015 Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)
2014 Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison Self
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Radagast the Brown
2014 The Seventeenth Kind Rusty
2013 Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty Self
2013 Doctor Who Explained Self
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Radagast the Brown
2013 The Christmas Candle Edward Haddington
2013 The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot Self
2013 Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
2013 Ian Levine: Downtime Redux The Doctor
2013 Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS Self
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Radagast the Brown
2012 The Inspector Chronicles Uncle Roderick
2012 Eldorado General Zwick
2011 Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2010 The Last Chance Saloon
2008 King Lear The Fool
2008 Doctor Who: The Next Doctor The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
2007 Davros Connections (archival footage)
2007 Doctor Who: Endgame
2006 Manilla Envelopes Duncan
2005 Doctor Who: A New Dimension Self
2003 The Story of Doctor Who
2002 My Doctor Who Diary
2002 Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time The Doctor
2001 Then & Now
2001 Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? The Foot Doctor
2000 The Mumbo Jumbo Mr. Tallman
1999 Adventures in Space and Time Himself
1998 Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1997 Beyond Fear Michael Samms
1996 Doctor Who The Doctor
1996 Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns Flynn
1996 Ghostlands Edward Parfitt
1996 Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary Self
1996 I Was a Doctor Who Monster! Presenter
1995 Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1995 The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995 Leapin' Leprechauns Flynn
1994 Myth Makers 28: Sylvester McCoy
1994 The Zero Imperative Dr. Colin Dove
1994 Stranger than Fiction
1993 The Airzone Solution Anthony Stanwick
1993 Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time The 7th Doctor
1993 30 Years in the TARDIS Himself
1993 Police 5: The Master The Doctor (archive footage)
1993 I Was That Monster Himself
1992 The Children's Royal Variety Performance The Wizard
1991 Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years Host
1991 Thrill Kill Video Club Spoons
1990 The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990 The PanoptiCon Tapes
1990 The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990 The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990 The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990 Search Out Space The Doctor
1989 Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric The Doctor
1989 Doctor Who: Battlefield The Doctor
1989 Doctor Who: Survival The Doctor
1989 Doctor Who: Ghost Light The Doctor
1988 Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy The Doctor
1988 Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks The Doctor
1988 Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol The Doctor
1988 Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis The Doctor
1988 The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
1987 Doctor Who: Dragonfire The Doctor
1987 Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen The Doctor
1987 Doctor Who: Time and the Rani The Doctor
1987 Three Kinds of Heat Harry Pimm
1987 Doctor Who: Paradise Towers The Doctor
1986 The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1980 Electric in the City Kerwin
1979 The Secret Policeman's Ball Various Roles
1979 Dracula Walter
1979 Big Jim and the Figaro Club Turps
1971 The Ken Campbell Roadshow Self
Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy? Self
You - Story and Glory of a Masterpiece Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman
Year TV Show Role
2023 Tales of the Tardis The Doctor
2016 The Real Marigold Hotel Self
2015 Thunderbirds Are Go! Aezethril the Wizard (voice)
2013 Father Brown Dr. Angus McClurgy
2013 Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited Self
2011 Pointless Celebrities Self
2006 Mayo Reverend Beaver
2005 Doctor Who Confidential
2002 Still Game
1997 The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling Mr, Dowling
1997 Space Cadets Self
1993 GMTV Self
1993 Frank Stubbs Promotes Angus
1987 It's Wicked
1987 Doctor Who Then & Now Doctor Who
1987 Going Live! Self
1986 Casualty Kev the Rev
1986 Casualty Ashley Millington
1985 The Last Place on Earth Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers
1984 The Bill
1981 Big Jim And The Figaro Club Turps
1978 An Audience with... Self
1974 Tiswas
1964 Vision On
1963 Doctor Who The Doctor
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