Sylvester McCoy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-08-20 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

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).

Acting

2022

1996

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

2008

King Lear

as The Fool

2012

2000

The Mumbo Jumbo

as Mr. Tallman

2020

Conjuring: The Book of the Dead

as Book Seller (archive footage)

2013

2023

Necronomicon

as Book Seller (archive footage)

1979

1993

The Airzone Solution

as Anthony Stanwick

1993

2013

The Christmas Candle

as Edward Haddington

2023

Talking Doctor Who

as Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

2023

2013

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

2021

2012

The Inspector Chronicles

as Uncle Roderick

1979

Dracula

as Walter

1994

The Zero Imperative

as Dr. Colin Dove

2018

Hangover in Death Valley

as General Zwick (archive footage)

1989

1989

2012

Eldorado

as General Zwick

1996

Ghostlands

as Edward Parfitt

2024

The Apocalypse Box

as Peter Mann

1987

1989

2017

Slumber

as Amado

1987

Three Kinds of Heat

as Harry Pimm

2006

2007

Davros Connections

as (archival footage)

1997

Beyond Fear

as Michael Samms

2020

The Owners

as Richard Huggins

2018

Beauty

as Henry

2020

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You - Story and Glory of a Masterpiece

as Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms

as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

2025

The Heartsmith

as Umbrella Man

2008

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

2015

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

as The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)

1993

Police 5: The Master

as The Doctor (archive footage)

1993

1990

Search Out Space

as The Doctor

2025

2025

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Production

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1996

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