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).

Most Famous Work

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Father Brown

(2013) Dr. Angus McClurgy

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

(2014) Radagast the Brown

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Casualty

(1986) Ashley Millington

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Doctor Who

(1963) The Doctor

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

(2012) Radagast the Brown

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

(2013) Radagast the Brown

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Playhouse

(1974) Kerwin

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Three Kinds of Heat

(1987) Harry Pimm

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2025	The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)	Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War 2025-05-31 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors 2025-04-17 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Downtime 2025-03-27 Movie
	Umbrella Man	The Heartsmith 2025-01-24 Movie
	Evan	Dead Before They Wake 2025-01-07 Movie
2024	The Doctor (7) (archive footage)	Doctor Who at the Proms 2024-12-24 Movie
	Peter Mann	The Apocalypse Box 2024-08-01 Movie
2023	The Doctor	Tales of the Tardis 2023-11-01 TV Show
	Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)	Talking Doctor Who 2023-11-01 Movie
	Self	Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2 2023-09-02 Movie
	Himself	Sylvester McCoy Uncut 2023-08-21 Movie
	Book Seller (archive footage)	Necronomicon 2023-05-31 Movie
2022	Klakk (voice)	Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth! 2022-10-07 Movie
	Igor	The Munsters 2022-09-27 Movie
	Igor / Self	The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane 2022-09-27 Movie
2021	Self	Christmas with Strangers 2021-11-26 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: 24 Carat 2021-01-21 Movie
2020	Ernie	Lost at Christmas 2020-12-04 Movie
	Richard Huggins	The Owners 2020-08-27 Movie
	Book Seller (archive footage)	Conjuring: The Book of the Dead 2020-01-17 Movie
2019	N/A	The Circuit 2019-02-26 Movie
	N/A	The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years 2019-01-01 Movie
2018	General Zwick (archive footage)	Hangover in Death Valley 2018-12-06 Movie
	N/A	The Doctors: Monsters! 2018-03-01 Movie
	Henry	Beauty 2018-01-07 Movie
2017	Amado	Slumber 2017-12-01 Movie
2016	Self	The Real Marigold Hotel 2016-01-26 TV Show
	DJ	Punk Strut: The Movie 2016-01-01 Movie
2015	The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)	Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song 2015-12-25 Movie
	Aezethril the Wizard (voice)	Thunderbirds Are Go! 2015-04-04 TV Show
2014	Radagast the Brown	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014-12-10 Movie
	Self	Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison 2014-08-01 Movie
	Rusty	The Seventeenth Kind 2014-07-01 Movie
2013	Radagast the Brown	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013-12-11 Movie
	Self	Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty 2013-11-23 Movie
	Self	The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot 2013-11-23 Movie
	The Doctor (7) (archive footage)	Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor 2013-11-23 Movie
	Edward Haddington	The Christmas Candle 2013-11-22 Movie
	The Doctor	Ian Levine: Downtime Redux 2013-11-18 Movie
	Self	Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS 2013-11-18 Movie
	Self	Doctor Who Explained 2013-11-01 Movie
	Self	Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited 2013-01-27 TV Show
	Dr. Angus McClurgy	Father Brown 2013-01-14 TV Show
2012	Radagast the Brown	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012-12-12 Movie
	Uncle Roderick	The Inspector Chronicles 2012-09-10 Movie
	General Zwick	Eldorado 2012-01-30 Movie
2011	N/A	Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time 2011-10-31 Movie
	Self	Pointless Celebrities 2011-07-04 TV Show
2010	N/A	The Last Chance Saloon 2010-09-13 Movie
2008	The Doctor (7) (archive footage)	Doctor Who: The Next Doctor 2008-12-25 Movie
	The Fool	King Lear 2008-08-06 Movie
2007	(archival footage)	Davros Connections 2007-11-26 Movie
	N/A	Doctor Who: Endgame 2007-04-16 Movie
2006	Reverend Beaver	Mayo 2006-03-12 TV Show
	Duncan	Manilla Envelopes 2006-01-01 Movie
2005	N/A	Doctor Who Confidential 2005-03-26 TV Show
	Self	Doctor Who: A New Dimension 2005-03-26 Movie
2003	N/A	The Story of Doctor Who 2003-12-30 Movie
	The Doctor / Walton Winkle (Voice)	Doctor Who: Zagreus 2003-11-21 Movie
2002	N/A	My Doctor Who Diary 2002-12-25 Movie
	N/A	Still Game 2002-09-06 TV Show
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time 2002-05-03 Movie
2001	N/A	Then & Now 2001-02-01 Movie
	The Foot Doctor	Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? 2001-01-01 Movie
2000	Mr. Tallman	The Mumbo Jumbo 2000-10-24 Movie
1999	Himself	Adventures in Space and Time 1999-11-13 Movie
1998	N/A	Where on Earth Is Katy Manning? 1998-01-01 Movie
1997	Mr, Dowling	The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling 1997-11-09 TV Show
	Self	Space Cadets 1997-07-15 TV Show
	Michael Samms	Beyond Fear 1997-03-30 Movie
1996	Flynn	Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns 1996-10-19 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who 1996-05-12 Movie
	Self	Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary 1996-04-01 Movie
	Presenter	I Was a Doctor Who Monster! 1996-01-18 Movie
	Edward Parfitt	Ghostlands 1996-01-01 Movie
1995	N/A	The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond 1995-09-01 Movie
	Flynn	Leapin' Leprechauns 1995-07-26 Movie
	N/A	Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen 1995-01-01 Movie
1994	Self	Myth Makers 28: Sylvester McCoy 1994-05-25 Movie
	Dr. Colin Dove	PROBE: The Zero Imperative 1994-01-01 Movie
	N/A	Stranger than Fiction 1994-01-01 Movie
1993	The Doctor (archive footage)	Police 5: The Master 1993-12-10 Movie
	Himself	I Was That Monster 1993-12-03 Movie
	Himself	30 Years in the TARDIS 1993-11-29 Movie
	The 7th Doctor	Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time 1993-11-27 Movie
	Angus	Frank Stubbs Promotes 1993-07-12 TV Show
	Self	GMTV 1993-01-01 TV Show
	Anthony Stanwick	The Airzone Solution 1993-01-01 Movie
1992	The Wizard	The Children's Royal Variety Performance 1992-05-25 Movie
1991	Self - Presenter	Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years 1991-06-03 Movie
	N/A	The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event 1991-01-01 Movie
	Spoons	Thrill Kill Video Club 1991-01-01 Movie
1990	The Doctor	Search Out Space 1990-11-21 Movie
	N/A	The PanoptiCon Tapes V 1990-01-05 Movie
	N/A	The PanoptiCon Tapes IV 1990-01-04 Movie
	N/A	The PanoptiCon Tapes III 1990-01-03 Movie
	N/A	The PanoptiCon Tapes II 1990-01-02 Movie
1989	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Survival 1989-12-06 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric 1989-11-15 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Ghost Light 1989-10-18 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Battlefield 1989-09-27 Movie
1988	The Doctor	Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 1988-12-14 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis 1988-12-07 Movie
	N/A	The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis 1988-11-19 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol 1988-11-16 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks 1988-10-26 Movie
1987	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Dragonfire 1987-12-07 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen 1987-11-16 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Paradise Towers 1987-10-26 Movie
	The Doctor	Doctor Who: Time and the Rani 1987-09-28 Movie
	Self	Going Live! 1987-09-26 TV Show
	Harry Pimm	Three Kinds of Heat 1987-06-01 Movie
	N/A	It's Wicked 1987-04-25 TV Show
	Doctor Who	Doctor Who Then & Now 1987-01-01 TV Show
1986	N/A	The PanoptiCon Tapes VI 1986-12-01 Movie
	Kev the Rev	Casualty 1986-09-06 TV Show
	Ashley Millington	Casualty 1986-09-06 TV Show
1985	Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers	The Last Place on Earth 1985-02-18 TV Show
1984	N/A	The Bill 1984-10-16 TV Show
1981	Turps	Big Jim And The Figaro Club 1981-07-08 TV Show
1980	Kerwin	Electric in the City 1980-05-23 Movie
1979	Various Roles	The Secret Policeman's Ball 1979-12-22 Movie
	Walter	Dracula 1979-07-20 Movie
	Turps	Big Jim and the Figaro Club 1979-06-24 Movie
1978	Self	An Audience with... 1978-01-08 TV Show
1974	Kerwin	Playhouse 1974-03-13 TV Show
	N/A	Tiswas 1974-01-05 TV Show
1971	Self	The Ken Campbell Roadshow 1971-01-01 Movie
1964	N/A	Vision On 1964-03-06 TV Show
1963	The Doctor	Doctor Who 1963-11-23 TV Show
	Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman	You - Story and Glory of a Masterpiece Movie
	Self	Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy? Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Camera

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1996	Camera Operator	Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary 1996-04-01 Movie
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Directing

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1996	Director	Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary 1996-04-01 Movie
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Production

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
	Executive Producer	Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy? Movie
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