Sylvester McCoy
Acting
Born August 20, 1943, Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
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).
Filmography
- 2025Dead Before They Wake — Evan
- 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2025The Heartsmith — Umbrella Man
- 2024Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
- 2024The Apocalypse Box — Peter Mann
- 2023Necronomicon — Book Seller (archive footage)
- Tales of the Tardis — The Doctor
- 2023The Adventures of Sleepy The Magical Bear: The Movie — Knibbles the Beaver (voice)
- 2022Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth! — Klakk (voice)
- 2022The Munsters — Igor
- 2021Doctor Who: 24 Carat — The Doctor
- 2020Conjuring: The Book of the Dead — Book Seller (archive footage)
- 2020Lost at Christmas — Ernie
- 2020The Owners — Richard Huggins
- 2019The Circuit
- 2019The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
- 2018Beauty — Henry
- 2018Hangover in Death Valley — General Zwick (archive footage)
- 2018The Doctors: Monsters!
- 2017Slumber — Amado
- 2016Punk Strut: The Movie — DJ
- Zapped — Lord Protector
- Crims — Mr Dunlop
- 2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song — The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)
- Thunderbirds Are Go! — Aezethril the Wizard (voice)
- 2014The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies — Radagast the Brown
- 2014The Seventeenth Kind — Rusty
- 2013Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (7) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor — The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
- Father Brown — Dr. Angus McClurgy
- 2013The Christmas Candle — Edward Haddington
- 2013The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — Radagast the Brown
- 2012Eldorado — General Zwick
- 2012The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey — Radagast the Brown
- 2012The Inspector Chronicles — Uncle Roderick
- 2011Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
- 2010The Last Chance Saloon
- 2010The Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy
- 2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor — The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
- 2008King Lear — The Fool
- 2007Davros Connections — (archival footage)
- 2006Manilla Envelopes — Duncan
- Mayo — Reverend Beaver
- Doctor Who Confidential
- 2003The Story of Doctor Who
- 2002Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time — The Doctor
- 2002My Doctor Who Diary
- Still Game
- 2001Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet? — The Foot Doctor
- 2001Then & Now
- 2000The Mumbo Jumbo — Mr. Tallman
- 2000You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece — Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman
- 1998Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
- 1997Beyond Fear — Michael Samms
- The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling — Mr, Dowling
- 1996Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary — Self, Camera Operator, Director
- 1996Doctor Who — The Doctor
- 1996Ghostlands — Edward Parfitt
- 1996I Was a Doctor Who Monster! — Presenter
- 1996Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns — Flynn
- 1995Leapin' Leprechauns — Flynn
- 1995Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
- 1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
- 1994PROBE: The Zero Imperative — Dr. Colin Dove
- 1994Stranger than Fiction
- 1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time — The 7th Doctor
- Frank Stubbs Promotes — Angus
- 1993Police 5: The Master — The Doctor (archive footage)
- 1993The Airzone Solution — Anthony Stanwick
- 1992The Children's Royal Variety Performance — The Wizard
- 1991The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
- 1991Thrill Kill Video Club — Spoons
- 1990Search Out Space — The Doctor
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes II
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes III
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
- 1990The PanoptiCon Tapes V
- 1989Doctor Who: Battlefield — The Doctor
- 1989Doctor Who: Ghost Light — The Doctor
- 1989Doctor Who: Survival — The Doctor
- 1989Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric — The Doctor
- 1988Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks — The Doctor
- 1988Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis — The Doctor
- 1988Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy — The Doctor
- 1988Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol — The Doctor
- 1988The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
- Doctor Who Then & Now — Doctor Who
- 1987Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen — The Doctor
- 1987Doctor Who: Dragonfire — The Doctor
- 1987Doctor Who: Paradise Towers — The Doctor
- 1987Doctor Who: Time and the Rani — The Doctor
- It's Wicked
- 1987Three Kinds of Heat — Harry Pimm
- Casualty — Kev the Rev, Ashley Millington
- 1986The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
- The Last Place on Earth — Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers
- The Bill
- Dramarama — Donald
- Big Jim and the Figaro Club — Turps
- 1980Electric in the City — Kerwin
- 1979Big Jim and the Figaro Club — Turps
- 1979Dracula — Walter
- 1979The Secret Policeman's Ball — Various Roles
- Turning Year Tales — Turps
- For the Love of Albert
- Playhouse — Kerwin
- Tiswas
- Vision On
- Doctor Who — The Doctor
- Bananacide — Dr. Brunswick
- Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy? — Self, Executive Producer
Appearances as themselves (27)
- 2023Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2 — Self
- 2023Sylvester McCoy Uncut — Himself
- 2023Talking Doctor Who — Self / The Doctor (7) (archive footage)
- 2021Christmas with Strangers — Self
- 2021In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy — Self
- 2020The Big Night In — Self
- Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa — Self
- The Real Marigold Hotel — Self
- 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison — Self
- 2013Doctor Who Explained — Self
- 2013Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty — Self
- 2013Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS — Self
- Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited — Self
- 2013The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot — Self
- Pointless Celebrities — Self
- 2007Doctor Who: Endgame — Self
- 2005Collectormania 7 — Self
- 2005Doctor Who: A New Dimension — Self
- 1999Adventures in Space and Time — Himself
- Space Cadets — Self
- 199330 Years in the TARDIS — Himself
- GMTV — Self
- 1993I Was That Monster — Himself
- 1991Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years — Self - Presenter
- Going Live! — Self
- An Audience with... — Self
- 1971The Ken Campbell Roadshow — Self