Sylvester McCoy

ActorCinematographerDirectorProducer Aug 20 (age 82) Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK 1963–2025 (62 year career)

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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

Film

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Radagast the Brown

Film

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Radagast the Brown

Film

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Radagast the Brown

Film

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

Film

Doctor Who

The Doctor

Film

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

The Doctor (7) (picture) (uncredited)

Film

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

Film

Dracula

Walter

Filmography

Acting (137)

Movies (108)

Dead Before They Wake

2025

as Evan

7.0

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.4

The Heartsmith

2025

as Umbrella Man

Doctor Who: Downtime

2025

as The Doctor

The Apocalypse Box

2024

as Peter Mann

2.6

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

7.2

Doctor on Display: Blackpool 2

2023

as Self

Necronomicon

2023

as Book Seller (archive footage)

2.0

Talking Doctor Who

2023

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

5.0

Sylvester McCoy Uncut

2023

as Himself

The Munsters: Return to Mockingbird Lane

as Igor / Self

The Munsters

as Igor

Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor

2022

as The Doctor

Bug-Eyed Monsters Invade the Earth!

2022

as Klakk (voice)

In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy

2021

as Self

Christmas with Strangers

2021

as Self

Doctor Who: 24 Carat

as The Doctor

Lost at Christmas

as Ernie

Conjuring: The Book of the Dead

2020

as Book Seller (archive footage)

The Owners

as Richard Huggins

The Circuit

The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years

2019

Hangover in Death Valley

2018

as General Zwick (archive footage)

1.0

The Doctors: Monsters!

Beauty

as Henry

Slumber

as Amado

Punk Strut: The Movie

2016

as DJ

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015

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

8.0

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014

as Radagast the Brown

7.3

The Seventeenth Kind

2014

as Rusty

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

2014

as Self

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

2013

as Radagast the Brown

7.6

Doctor Who Explained

2013

as Self

8.5

Doctor Who: Crime of the Century

2013

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

8.2

The Christmas Candle

2013

as Edward Haddington

5.8

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

as Self

7.8

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

2013

as Self

Doctor Who: Thin Ice

2013

as The Doctor

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

2013

as Self

9.0

The Appendices, Part Eight: Return to Middle-earth

2013

as Self

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012

as Radagast the Brown

7.4

Eldorado

2012

as General Zwick

2.7

The Inspector Chronicles

2012

as Uncle Roderick

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

2011

8.0

The Last Chance Saloon

2010

The Name'sh McCoy Shylveshter McCoy

2010

King Lear

2008

as The Fool

6.7

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008

as The Doctor (7) (archive footage)

7.4

Doctor Who: Endgame

2007

as Self

Davros Connections

2007

as (archival footage)

Manilla Envelopes

2006

as Duncan

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

2005

as Self

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time

2002

as The Doctor

8.7

My Doctor Who Diary

2002

Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?

as The Foot Doctor

Then & Now

The Mumbo Jumbo

as Mr. Tallman

You: Story and Glory of a Masterpiece

2000

as Museum attendant / Vasilij Grossman

Adventures in Space and Time

1999

as Himself

Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

1998

9.0

Beyond Fear

1997

as Michael Samms

Doctor Who

1996

as The Doctor

6.2

Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns

1996

as Flynn

3.0

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

1996

as Self

6.0

Ghostlands

1996

as Edward Parfitt

I Was a Doctor Who Monster!

1996

as Presenter

Leapin' Leprechauns

1995

as Flynn

3.2

The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

1995

7.0

Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen

1995

PROBE: The Zero Imperative

1994

as Dr. Colin Dove

7.0

Stranger than Fiction

1994

The Airzone Solution

1993

as Anthony Stanwick

4.9

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

1993

as The 7th Doctor

4.6

30 Years in the TARDIS

1993

as Himself

7.5

I Was That Monster

1993

as Himself

Police 5: The Master

1993

as The Doctor (archive footage)

The Children's Royal Variety Performance

1992

as The Wizard

The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event

1991

Thrill Kill Video Club

1991

as Spoons

8.0

Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years

1991

as Self - Presenter

8.0

The PanoptiCon Tapes V

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes II

1990

The PanoptiCon Tapes IV

1990

Search Out Space

1990

as The Doctor

8.0

The PanoptiCon Tapes III

1990

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

1989

as The Doctor

8.4

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric

1989

as The Doctor

8.5

Doctor Who: Battlefield

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: Survival

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol

1988

as The Doctor

8.0

The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis

1988

Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

1988

as The Doctor

7.5

Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks

1988

as The Doctor

9.4

Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis

1988

as The Doctor

7.2

Doctor Who: Time and the Rani

1987

as The Doctor

5.5

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

1987

as The Doctor

6.0

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

1987

as The Doctor

6.5

Doctor Who: Dragonfire

as The Doctor

Three Kinds of Heat

as Harry Pimm

The PanoptiCon Tapes VI

1986

Electric in the City

1980

as Kerwin

Big Jim and the Figaro Club

1979

as Turps

The Secret Policeman's Ball

as Various Roles

Dracula

as Walter

The Ken Campbell Roadshow

1971

as Self

Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?

as Self

Television (29)

Tales of the Tardis

2023

as The Doctor

5.4

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa

2018

as Self

The Real Marigold Hotel

2016

as Self

8.0

Thunderbirds Are Go!

2015

as Aezethril the Wizard (voice)

6.2

Father Brown

2013

as Dr. Angus McClurgy

7.6

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

2013

as Self

6.4

Pointless Celebrities

as Self

Mayo

as Reverend Beaver

Doctor Who

as The Doctor (archive footage)

7.6

Doctor Who Confidential

Still Game

Space Cadets

as Self

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

1997

as Mr, Dowling

7.0

Ready, Steady, Cook

1994

as Self - Contestant

GMTV

1993

as Self

5.6

Frank Stubbs Promotes

as Angus

Going Live!

as Self

It's Wicked

Doctor Who Then & Now

1987

as Doctor Who

Casualty

1986

as Kev the Rev

6.2

The Last Place on Earth

1985

as Lt. 'Birdie' Bowers

6.8

The Bill

1984

6.7

Big Jim And The Figaro Club

1981

as Turps

An Audience with...

as Self

Playhouse

as Kerwin

Tiswas

Vision On

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

1996

Camera Operator

6.0

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

1996

Director

6.0

Sylvester: Who's the Real McCoy?

Executive Producer