Sylvester McCoy
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Aug 20, 1943 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
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
| 2025 | Dead Before They WakeEvan | |
| 2025 | The HeartsmithUmbrella Man | |
| 2025 | Doctor Who: DowntimeThe Doctor | |
| 2025 | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality WarThe Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2024 | The Apocalypse BoxPeter Mann | |
| 2024 | Doctor Who at the PromsThe Doctor (7) (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | NecronomiconBook Seller (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2Self | |
| 2023 | Talking Doctor WhoSelf / The Doctor (7) (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | Sylvester McCoy UncutHimself | |
| 2023 | The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The MovieKnibbles the Beaver (voice) | |
| 2023 | Tales of the TardisThe Doctor | |
| 2022 | The MunstersIgor | |
| 2022 | The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird LaneIgor / Self | |
| 2022 | Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!Klakk (voice) | |
| 2022 | Doctor Who: The Power of the DoctorThe Doctor | |
| 2021 | Doctor Who: 24 CaratThe Doctor | |
| 2021 | Christmas with StrangersSelf | |
| 2021 | In Conversation: Sylvester McCoySelf | |
| 2020 | Conjuring: The Book of the DeadBook Seller (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | The OwnersRichard Huggins | |
| 2020 | Lost at ChristmasErnie | |
| 2020 | The Big Night InSelf | |
| 2019 | The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years | |
| 2019 | The Circuit | |
| 2018 | Hangover in Death ValleyGeneral Zwick (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | BeautyHenry | |
| 2018 | The Doctors: Monsters! | |
| 2018 | Doctor Who: Behind the SofaSelf | |
| 2017 | SlumberAmado | |
| 2016 | Punk Strut: The MovieDJ | |
| 2016 | The Real Marigold HotelSelf | |
| 2015 | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River SongThe Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited) | |
| 2015 | Thunderbirds Are Go!Aezethril the Wizard (voice) | |
| 2014 | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter DavisonSelf | |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five ArmiesRadagast the Brown | |
| 2014 | The Seventeenth KindRusty | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who Live: The AfterpartySelf | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who ExplainedSelf | |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of SmaugRadagast the Brown | |
| 2013 | The Christmas CandleEdward Haddington | |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors RebootSelf | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Day of the DoctorThe Doctor (7) (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDISSelf | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: Thin IceThe Doctor | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: Crime of the CenturyThe Doctor | |
| 2013 | Father BrownDr. Angus McClurgy | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Doctors RevisitedSelf | |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyRadagast the Brown | |
| 2012 | The Inspector ChroniclesUncle Roderick | |
| 2012 | EldoradoGeneral Zwick | |
| 2011 | Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time | |
| 2011 | Pointless CelebritiesSelf | |
| 2010 | The Last Chance Saloon | |
| 2010 | The Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy | |
| 2008 | King LearThe Fool | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: The Next DoctorThe Doctor (7) (archive footage) | |
| 2007 | Davros Connections(archival footage) | |
| 2007 | Doctor Who: EndgameSelf | |
| 2006 | Manilla EnvelopesDuncan | |
| 2006 | MayoReverend Beaver | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who: A New DimensionSelf | |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential | |
| 2003 | The Story of Doctor Who | |
| 2002 | My Doctor Who Diary | |
| 2002 | Doctor Who: Death Comes to TimeThe Doctor | |
| 2002 | Still Game | |
| 2001 | Then & Now | |
| 2001 | Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?The Foot Doctor | |
| 2000 | The Mumbo JumboMr. Tallman | |
| 2000 | You: Story and Glory of a MasterpieceMuseum attendant / Vasilij Grossman | |
| 1999 | Adventures in Space and TimeHimself | |
| 1998 | Where on Earth Is Katy Manning? | |
| 1997 | Beyond FearMichael Samms | |
| 1997 | The History of Tom Jones: A FoundlingMr, Dowling | |
| 1997 | Space CadetsSelf | |
| 1996 | Doctor WhoThe Doctor | |
| 1996 | Spellbreaker: Secret of the LeprechaunsFlynn | |
| 1996 | GhostlandsEdward Parfitt | |
| 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video DiarySelf | |
| 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' LeprechaunsFlynn | |
| 1994 | PROBE: The Zero ImperativeDr. Colin Dove | |
| 1994 | Stranger than Fiction | |
| 1993 | The Airzone SolutionAnthony Stanwick | |
| 1993 | Doctor Who: Dimensions in TimeThe 7th Doctor | |
| 1993 | 30 Years in the TARDISHimself | |
| 1993 | Police 5: The MasterThe Doctor (archive footage) | |
| 1993 | I Was That MonsterHimself | |
| 1993 | GMTVSelf | |
| 1993 | Frank Stubbs PromotesAngus | |
| 1992 | The Children's Royal Variety PerformanceThe Wizard | |
| 1991 | Doctor Who: The Hartnell YearsSelf - Presenter | |
| 1991 | The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event | |
| 1991 | Thrill Kill Video ClubSpoons | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes III | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes II | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes V | |
| 1990 | The PanoptiCon Tapes IV | |
| 1990 | Search Out SpaceThe Doctor | |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: The Curse of FenricThe Doctor | |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: BattlefieldThe Doctor | |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: SurvivalThe Doctor | |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: Ghost LightThe Doctor | |
| 1988 | Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the GalaxyThe Doctor | |
| 1988 | Doctor Who: Remembrance of the DaleksThe Doctor | |
| 1988 | Doctor Who: The Happiness PatrolThe Doctor | |
| 1988 | Doctor Who: Silver NemesisThe Doctor | |
| 1988 | The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis | |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: DragonfireThe Doctor | |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: Delta and the BannermenThe Doctor | |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: Time and the RaniThe Doctor | |
| 1987 | Three Kinds of HeatHarry Pimm | |
| 1987 | Doctor Who: Paradise TowersThe Doctor | |
| 1987 | It's Wicked | |
| 1987 | Doctor Who Then & NowDoctor Who | |
| 1987 | Going Live!Self | |
| 1986 | The PanoptiCon Tapes VI | |
| 1986 | CasualtyKev the Rev | |
| 1986 | CasualtyAshley Millington | |
| 1985 | The Last Place on EarthLt. 'Birdie' Bowers | |
| 1984 | The Bill | |
| 1981 | Big Jim and the Figaro ClubTurps | |
| 1980 | Electric in the CityKerwin | |
| 1979 | The Secret Policeman's BallVarious Roles | |
| 1979 | DraculaWalter | |
| 1979 | Big Jim and the Figaro ClubTurps | |
| 1978 | An Audience with...Self | |
| 1974 | Tiswas | |
| 1974 | PlayhouseKerwin | |
| 1971 | The Ken Campbell RoadshowSelf | |
| 1964 | Vision On | |
| 1963 | Doctor WhoThe Doctor | |
| - | Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?Self | |
| - | BananacideDr. Brunswick |
| - | Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Bidding Adieu: A Video DiaryDirector |